Kathleen Wallace
Kathleen Wallace is regarded as a custodian for Keringke Arts Inc. She is the senior artist for the Keringke Art Centre, having guided, developed and nurtured the enterprise, its artists and artistic direction for almost 20 years. Kathleen was raised by family in the bush at Uyetye, and trained from an early age in the stories of her culture and country. Kathleen is one of only a few surviving family members or community members who has these stories and skills, and Keringke Arts, in the community of Ltyentye Apurte is situated on her traditional lands. Her connection to her country and to her law and culture has remained strong.
As an oral story-teller she uses her skills to provide a version of a story for her audience. As an example, Kathleen is aware of approximately 150 names for different winds that blow around the community and the knowledge of what the winds might mean.
She is internationally regarded, and has work in many major Australian collections. Her paintings are highly sought after in the primary and secondary marketplace. The paintings reflect her stories in intricate fine detail, and she is the driving force behind the emergence of the Keringke Style, for which Eastern Arrernte artists are now renowned. In the art centre Kathleen has been responsible for teaching and mentoring many other artists in the use of visual art as well as encouraging them to bring forward into their own art imagery of their experiences of culture and family. This has resulted in a diversity of paintings at the art centre including depiction of dances, story telling, food and fruits, significant country, totems and ancestor stories.
In the wider community of Ltyentye Apurte Kathleen has often given her time freely to the school to tell stories for use in a range of educational activities: dance performance, mural painting, bush travel and cultural activities.
Keringke Arts became, after a time, an internationally renowned arts organisation. The Ltyentye Apurte Art Centre is named after Kathleen Wallace's Dreaming place.
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Collections:
- Keringke Arts Aboriginal Incorporation, Ltyentye Apurte, Santa Teresa, NT
- Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, NT
- Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
- Kelton Foundation, LA, USA
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.
- Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, ANU, Canberra, ACT
- The Society of the Divine Word, Sydney, NSW
- The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
- ATSIIAS, Canberra, ACT
Exhibitions:
- 1988 Pmere , Birukmarri Gallery, Fremantle WA; Bicentennial Australia Craft Show, Sydney Show Ground,NSW
- 1989 One Country- Two Views , Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
- 1990 Mbwellare, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
- 1991 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
- 1992 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition,Araluen Art Centre Alice Springs
- Atyelpe, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
- 1993Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
- Central Desert Silks, Rainbow Serpent Gallery, Sydney NSW NT Art Award, Darwin NT
- 1994 Central Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
- Heritage Namatjira Exhibition, Tandanya, Adelaide SA
- National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Parliament House ACT
- 1995 Alice Craft Acquisition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT.
- National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
- Central Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
- Collegiate Arts Festival, Museum of Centre Australia, Alice Springs
- Northern Territory Art Award, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT
- 1996 Native Titled Now, Tandanya, Adelaide SA; National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House ACT; National Fringe 96, Inbarendi Fringe Gallery, Adelaide SA
- Alice Craft Acquisition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT Central Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft
- Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT; National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin NT; Arm Load of Art Exhibition, Woods St Gallery, Darwin NT;National Craft Acquisition Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
- 1997 Desert Mob Show, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, NT Rentye - Homeland, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
- 1998 Keringke Arts: Designs of the Desert, Hogarth Galleries Aboriginal Arts Centre, Sydney, NSW
- Desert Mob Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Raiki Wara, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria; Keringke Arts: Colour and Light, Gondwana II, Alice Springs; Keringke Arts: Kaleidoscope, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
- 1999 Keringke (Kangaroo Tracks), Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Desert Mob Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs;ækalka - intelheÆ (designs) Fox Studios, Rainbow Serpent, Sydney, NSW
- 2001 Putting in the Colour, Silk Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, Vic.
- 2002 Kathleen Wallace Solo Exhibition - 'irrernte-arenyela ayeye anteke' (stories given by the spirits) Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
- 2003
- Desert Mob Show, Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs; True Blue, Framed Gallery, Darwin; Jungara Galleries, Cairns and Port Douglas
- 2004 Desert Mob Show, Araluen, Alice Springs; Keringke Arts at Jungara Galleries, Cairns and Port Douglas QLD
- 2005 Meeniyan Art Gallery, VIC; Aboriginal and Tribal Art Gallery, Sydney NSW, Jungara Galleries, Cairns and Port Douglas, QLD; Tuggeranong Gallery, ACT; Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Centre, N.T
- Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
- 2006 Desert Divas, Gallery Gondwanna, Alice Springs
Awards:
- 2001, Finalist 18th Telstra NATSIAA
- 1996 Artwork reproduced under license as calendar, diaries and postcards - Community Aid Abroad
- Painting reproduced under license as gift cards by the Institute for Aboriginal Development
- 1997 Artwork reproduced in Jukurrpa Diary by IAD Press
- 1999 Written contribution - Keringke - Contemporary Eastern Arrernte Art Artwork reproduced under license as calendar, diaries and postcards - Community Aid Abroad
- 2000 Written contribution - Bush Toys - a living history book - L. Rockchild
- Joint project - Church Banners - Santa Teresa / Arltunga History Project Illustrator - children book for Bahai, Faith Foundation
- 2001 Jukurrpa Diary - IAD Press
- 2003 Menzies School of Health - Web page "Helaing Spirits" image Indigenous Sports Scholarship - charity auction, one painted football
- 2004 Jukurrpa Diary - IAD Press
- 2005 Designs reproduced on Bags and Sarongs, OzAboriginal.
Source: © Copyright Keringke Art Centre, © Artist image photographed by Sabine Haider 2008, Painting Ttile: Dreamtime Spirits
Artist: Kathleen Wallace
Skin Name: Kemarre
Language: Eastern Arrernte
Region: Santa Teresa
Vendor: Central Art
Dreaming: Kangaroo Tracks (Keringke)
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