Gloria Petyarre
Biography
Born about 1945, Ms Petyarre was a prominent Anmatyerre artist who has been well recognised in Australia for some years. Her work has been widely exhibited since 1977 when she was a part of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) Summer Project. This project took some of the women from Utopia to Indonesia to learn how to make Batik. This first foray into art making produced 88 batiks which were all acquired by the Holmes a Court collection in 1987 after touring internationally. Between 1977 and 1987 she participated in numerous group exhibitions with other women artists from Utopia painting in Batik as well as in acrylics. the ease of working with acrylics and the colours available made her transition completely to this medium.
Ms Petyarre paints the leaves of the Mulga tree which are used in bush medicine and some foods. The leaves are collected and ground into a powder. She uses a well practiced technique to render her story, over lapping the small feather leaves to create movement and dipping her brush into several colours for her large leaf paintings to create texture. Ms Petyarre also shares the mountain devil lizard story with her sister Kathleen Petyarre (deceased). She paints the swirling tracks it leaves in the sand and the associated body paint design.
Ms Petyarre's paintings are included in most of the major public collections in Australian and several in the UK and US. Some photographs of Gloria are part of the collection in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and she sat for Archibald prize finalist 2017, Jenny Sages.
In June 2021 Ms Petyarre passed away, a huge loss to Australian art, particularly to those who knew her in Utopia and Alice Springs in the remote Northern Territory. She will be missed.
Collections
Allen, Allen and Hemsley Lawyers
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales
British Museum, London
Flinders University Adelaide
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Griffith University Collection
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Museum of Fine arts in San Francisco
Museums and Art Gallery of the NT
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Powerhouse Museum Sydney
Prime Minister’s Residence, “The Lodge”, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology
Robert Holmes a’ Court Collection
Singapore Art Museum
Supreme Court, Brisbane
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Victorian Museum
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, U.S.A.
Wollongong University Collection
Westpac Collection, New YorkExhibitions
2009 5th Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition, University of NSW, Sydney
2009 Abstraction, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2008 Gooch's Utopia, Flinders University, Adelaide
2006 A Survey, Utopia Art, Sydney
2006 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
DC, USA
2006 Utopia, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Power of The Land', Utopia Art Sydney
2004 Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
2004 Curtin University of Technology, Perth
2004 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, NSW
2004 The Women's Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Utopia: Gloria, Barbara, Minnie, Flinders Lane Gallery,
Melbourne
2003 Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne
2003 National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square, Melbourne
2002 Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
2002 Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2002 Knut Grothe Galeri, Charlottlenlund, Copenhagen
2002 Two Thirds Sky, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts
Centre, NSW
2002 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
2002 Gallery Rai, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art, Singapore
2001 Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria
2001 Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand
2000 Australian National University, Canberra
2000 FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Australian National University, ACT
2000 Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
2000 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
1999 Bush Garden, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1999 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, U.S.A.
1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, U.S.A.
1999 New England Regional Art Museum;
1999 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1999 New Leaves, Utopia Art, Sydney
1999 Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney
1999 Utopia, BMG Art, Adelaide
1999 Arts d'Australie, Bastille, Paris
1999 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1998 The Anangkere Growth Paintings, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1998 Annandale Galleries, Sydney
1998 Exhibitions in Europe inc. Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland
1998 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1998 Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1998 The Adelaide Festival Theatre, Adelaide
1998 Propositions Australiennes, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris
1997 Australian Galleries, Sydney
1997 Instant Pictures, Utopia Art, Sydney
1997 Galerie de Stassart, Bruxelles
1997 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1996 Seoul Arts Centre, Korea
1996 Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
1996 S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1995 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1995 Mitchell Galleries, State Library of NSW, Sydney
1995 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1995 Aboriginal and Tribal Art Centre, Sydney
1995 Canberra Museum of Art, Gifu, Japan
1995 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995 Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1995 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1994 Utopia Art, Sydney
1994 Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1994 Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
1994 Art Gallery of NSW
1993 Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
1993 Austral Gallery, St Louis, U.S.A.
1993 Australian Embassy, Paris, France
Showing 1–12 of 15 artworks
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled - Bush Medicine, 2015
106 x 200 cm Acrylic on Canvas $17,710.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled - Mulga Leaves, 2015
136 x 198 cm Acrylic on Canvas $22,000.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled, 2015
110 x 205 cm Acrylic on Canvas $17,710.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled, 2015
125 x 202 cm Acrylic on Canvas $19,800.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled - Awelye Mountain Devil, 2013
120 x 170 cm Acrylic on Canvas $16,500.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled, 2016
73 x 95 cm Acrylic on Canvas $5,500.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled
74 x 200 cm Acrylic on Canvas $13,200.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled - Mulga Leaves, 2018
108 x 200 cm Acrylic on Canvas $17,710.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled
200 x 168 cm Acrylic on Canvas $31,900.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled - Mulga Leaves, 2015
165 x 180 cm Acrylic on Canvas $25,400.00
Gloria Petyarre
Untitled - Bush Medicine, 2015
196 x 106 cm Acrylic on Canvas $17,710.00