Glady Kemarre

Born in 1937, Glady Kemarre (also spelt Gladys) lives at the outstation of Camel Camp, Utopia. She paints her Dreaming - Bush Plum - as well as Bush Men which are very interesting hunting and family scenes which she describes as ‘olden times - these things my mother told me’.

Her career in painting began in the late 70s when the Utopia Women's Batik Group was formed. Under the expert guidance of CAAMA and Rodney Gooch the first major communal project - a series of eighty eight works entitled Utopia - A Picture Story was launched onto the Australian and international stage. The Holmes a Court Collection sponsored these art projects from Utopia projects which toured Australia and worldwide.

This was followed by the first foray into acrylic paint on canvas in the summer of 1988-9 as part of CAAMA's "The First works on Canvas, a Summer Project". This first body of paintings was exhibited - and enthusiastically received - at the SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney.

Glady Kemarre has continued to use this medium to express her Dreamings and since 1985, has held a number of exhibitions in Australia, Belgium and Germany.

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Bibliography:

1998 - Art Australia Guide, Stephen Pearson
2001 - Utopian Aboriginal Artists: paintings from the centre, Tanya Morton

Collections:

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Northern Territory Museums and Art Galleries, Darwin

Exhibitions:

2008 - From the Desert to the Sea, Yurlunggar Art, Brisbane
2007 - Patterns of Power, Art from the Eastern Desert, Simmer on the Bay, Sydney.
2006 - Senior Women of Utopia, GalleryG, Brisbane
2002, 2002, 2004 - Aboriginal Art exhibition, Gallery Bahr, Speyer
2001-02 - Land of Diversity, The Northern Territory, Hogarth Galleries, Paddington
2001 - Exposition collective, arts d’Australie, Arts D’Australie Equation Transparence, Paris
1998 - Utopia and Balgo Hills, Gallery Bahr, Speyer, Holland
1997 - Exposition collective, arts d’Australie, Arts D’Australie Equation Transparence, Bruxelles
1996 - Voices of the Earth: Paintings, Photography and Sculpture from Aboriginal Australia, Seoul, South Korea, Calcutta, India
1996 - Nangara: The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection, Brugge, Belgium.
1996 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1994 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1993 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1992 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1991 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1989-91 - Utopia – a Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide; The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
1986 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, NT
1985 - Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, NT