Gracie Morton Pwerle

Born on Utopia Station, c.1956, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of well known artist Myrtle Petyarre.

As with other women artists from, Utopia Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia, Gracie began her painting career in the 1980s working with batik, then commenced painting with acrylics on canvas.

Gracie Morton Pwerle's style of painting is distinctively minimalist: she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours, which derive from the colours of natural ochres.

Gracie Morton Pwerle's signature theme in her paintings is the bush plum known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.

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Collections:

Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Beher Collection, Germany
Slaughter and May International Law Collection, London, U.K..

Exhibitions:

1985, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1989 S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1989-91 Tandanya, Adelaide
1998 2002 Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer, Germany
1998 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French Embassy, Canberra
1999, 2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns
2000 "Kunst der Aborigines", Leverkusen, Germany
2001 Staedtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany
2000 Cairns, Queensland
2002 "Land is Life Art from Australia", Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Reugen, Germany
1998, 2000, 2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne

Source: Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)

Artist: Gracie Morton Pwerle

Skin Name: Pwerle (Pwerl)

Language: Alyawarre

Region: Utopia

Vendor: Central Art

Dreaming: Bush Plum (Arnwekety) Aweyle (women ceremonies)

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