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Emily Kame Kngwarreye (also spelt Emily Kam Kngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. After only starting painting as a septuagenarian, Kngwarreye became one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Indigenous Australian art. She was a ...
At the time, this was the world record price for Aboriginal art and for a work by a female Australian artist. [ 5 ] On the request of the National Museum of Australia , Earth's Creation was loaned immediately on purchase to tour in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan in 2007, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and to be exhibited at the National Museum in Canberra in 2008.
When the gallery owners failed to receive government funding, the Emily Museum was instead opened in early 2013 alongside AGOD, at the gallery space in Cheltenham. The exhibition showcased the 5x15m "Emily Wall", [1] as well as works from Kngwarreye's Last Series. [4] It was the first museum featuring a single Aboriginal artist. [5]
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. Because naming conventions for Indigenous Australians vary widely, this list is ordered by first name rather than surname.
Petyarre was the niece of the influential Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye and had several sisters who are also well-known artists in their own right, among them Gloria, Violet, Myrtle and Jeanna Petyarre. Kathleen, with her daughter Margaret and her sisters, settled at Iylenty (Mosquito Bore) at Utopia Station, near her birthplace.
Kudditji Kngwarreye, also known as "Goob", (1938 – 23 January 2017) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. He was the brother through kinship of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye .
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Sue Kneebone: artist and arts educator; Emily Kngwarreye (1910–1996): Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community; William Dunn Knox (1820–1945): painter, member of the Victorian Artists Society; Lisette Kohlhagen (1890–1969): painter; Theo Koning (born 1950): Dutch-born Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher