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A Qantas aircraft, Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner VH-ZND, is named Emily Kame Kngwarreye and painted in a special livery based on her work Yam Dreaming. Emily Kame Kngwarreye, also spelt Emily Kam Kngwarray, [1] was born c.1910 in Alhalkere in the Utopia Homelands, an Aboriginal community located approximately 250 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs (Mparntwe).
Neale, M. (2008), Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra. Earth's Creation goes to auction – 2007; Emily rides to rescue with big creation – Sydney Morning Herald; Earth's Creation visits Territory Parliament; Earth's Creation in Alice; Watching the price of spirituality – Herald Sun
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 .
In 2009, more than 200 works by renowned Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye were set aside from the collection at AGOD to form the core for a Melbourne-located museum. [1] 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.
Esteemed artist Emily Kngwarreye had an individual Dreaming around the pencil yam. This meant she had been given stories about the origins of the pencil yam, and was entitled to tell these stories and paint the yam.
Jeanna Petyarre was born c.1950s into the Petyarre artist family at Boundary Bore, an outstation on the Utopia homelands, 270km north east of Alice Springs. [1]Jeanna began her painting career in the 1980s, with her works predominantly representing the traditional plants that her people collect and use as food sources and for medicinal purposes, specifically the Bush Yam and Bush Medicine ...
Dioscorea bulbifera (commonly known as the air potato, air yam, bitter yam, cheeky yam, potato yam, [2] aerial yam, [3] and parsnip yam [4]) is a species of true yam in the yam family, Dioscoreaceae. It is native to Africa, Asia and northern Australia. [ 1 ]
Petyarre used batik, and she was known for her big leaf paintings. She mixed colours on her canvas, and used big and wide strokes in her works. Petyarre worked in the Women's Batik Group with some of her family, like her sister Kathleen Petyarre and well-known aunt Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Her work, such as "Bush Medicine" was influenced by huge ...