EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE - AWELYE
EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
AWELYE, 1991
193 x 118 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
REGION
Utopia, NT
PROVENANCE
Image of artist with the artwork, NT
STORY
Beginning late in 1991 and throughout the following years, Emily explored a range of techniques after largely abandoning the fine dotting and submerged linear tracking which had characterised her earlier works. She used larger brushes to create broader circular dabs of paint, that often involved 'double dipping' the brush in various colours, before attacking the canvas. In this work, she shows tremendous confidence and great subtlety of colour in rendering tracks of the yam roots and the final stages before maturity following a floral profusion during an abundant and wet summer. The linear application of broad dotting creates swathing rhythm across the canvas. Despite the sweeping gestural flourishes, the resultant image contains considerable nuances, which evoke the physical and spiritual fertility of the land, and radiance of being, that is sought during ceremony.
ARTIST PROFILE
