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KATHLEEN PETYARRE - MY COUNTRY-BUSH SEEDS

KATHLEEN PETYARRE - MY COUNTRY-BUSH SEEDS

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KATHLEEN PETYARRE

MY COUNTRY-BUSH SEEDS,  2003
122 x 122cm
synthetic polymer paint on belgian linen

 

REGION

Utopia, NT

 

PROVENANCE
Gallerie Australis, S.A
Cooee Art Leven, NSW

 

STORY
This represents an aerial view composition of Kathleen Petyarre’s sacred Dreaming site of the Mountain Devil Lizard in the vicinity of Mosquito Bore on Utopia Station .It is here at this site that the men and women of the eastern Anmatyerre language conduct important secret and sacred initiation ceremonies. This Dreaming site is situated in the artist’s father’s country and the general locality is identified by a group of sand-hills.The painting portrays the area scattered with seeds, summer bush flowers and spinifex grasses.

The sand-hills represents a sacred Women’s Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth).

 

EXHIBITED
Tracing The Country, March 2023, Cooee Art | Redfern
Ripples in the Water - Lines in the Sand, March 2010, Dank Street Depot
September , September 2007
Mixed Utopia, April 2006, Maunell Wickes
Utopia - Cooee Art | Redfern

 

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KATHLEEN PETYARRE

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