Gloria Petyarre is a prominent Anmatyarre aboriginal artist who has been at the forefront of contemporary Australian painting for some years.

While she works within the bounds of traditional knowledge and often expresses Tjukurrpa themes and traditional women’s body designs, Gloria remains a contemporary individualist, exhibiting a number of clear stylistic innovations, both sequential and concurrent. At the same time, the forms or structures that can be discerned underlying much of her work are reminiscent of the forms of other kin, in particular Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her sister Ada Bird.

Gloria is a very successful aboriginal artist with collections in many countries, and her paintings are much sought after for investment art and pleasure.

• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
• Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection
• Victorian Museum, Melbourne, Victoria
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Australia
• Westpac Collection, New York, USA
• Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
• The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Museum of Fine arts, San Francisco, USA
• Gantner Myer Collection, USA