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Emily Kame Kngwarreye, also named Emily Kam Kngwarray, was an Anmatyerr artist from Central Australia who died in 1996. Her work is inseparable from Alhalkere, her ancestral Country, and her cultural responsibilities there. After a long practice of ceremonial marking on the body and in sand, she began working in batik in 1977. The move to painting on canvas in 1988–1989 opened an especially intense creative period.
Her networks of dots and lines express relationships between plants, land and inherited knowledge, without being reducible to topographical description. Anwerlarr anganenty, or Big yam Dreaming, made in 1995 and held by the National Gallery of Victoria, unfolds lines associated with yam plants and women’s body painting. Across a monumental canvas, rhythms, intersections and movements of the hand give form to lived knowledge of Country.
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Oil on canvas
Utopia N.T. Soakage Bore
huile sur toile
Date to be documented
Published result : 25000 CHF
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Estimate : CHF 25000–30000
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