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Audrey Morton Kngwarreye

Audrey Morton Kngwarreye
  • Artist: Audrey Morton Kngwarreye
  • Skin Name: Kngwarreye, Kngwarrey
  • Language: Alyawarr
  • Region: Utopia, central Australia
  • Dreaming: Awely (Body Paint), Yerramp (Honey Ant), Rainbow (Mpwelarr), Sweet Honey Grevillea (Tharrkarr), Wild Flower Seeds

 

Audrey Morton Kngwarreye was born in 1954 at Utopia aboriginal dictionary button in central Australia.


Audrey was involved in the important Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) community projects which resulted in Utopia - A Picture Story, 88 silk batiks from the Holmes a Court which toured throughout Australia. Her first foray into painting with acrylic on canvas began when CAAMA initiated Utopia Women’s Paintings the first works on canvas – A Summer Project. She has featured in several group exhibitions since 1977 for her work in batik (during the 1980's) and throughout Australia and America for her work in acrylics.


In her work Audrey depicts the Dreamtime stories of her countries, Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr as well as Sweet Honey Grevillea (Tharrkarr), Alpeyt (Acacia flowers) and Awely (body designs.


  • Brody, A., 1989, Utopia Women's Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth. �
  • Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth. �
  • 1990, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings Ltd., Perth.
  • 1994, Tyerabarrbowaryaou 2 I Shall Never Become a Whiteman, exhib. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. �
    • Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
    • The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
    • Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
    • The Holmes � Court Collection, Perth
    • 1985 - The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
    • 1989 - Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
    • 1990 - Utopia - A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland.
    • 1990 - Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, Lake Oswego Center for the Arts, United States of America.
    • 1991 - The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern 1992/3 - New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia.
    • 1994 - Tyerabarrbowaryaou 2, I shall never become a whiteman, 5th Havana Biennial, Cuba, & Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, 2005 - Black Ink: Indigenous Prints from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.)
    • 2007 - A Brush with Art, Eastern Desert Art Songs, Prairie Hotel, Parachilna