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Gloria Petyarre 1943 - Present Day

Style
Indigenous

Career Status
Blue Chip

Biography
Gloria Tamerre Petyarre was born in c.1945 at Atnangkere Soakage, Northern Territory. In the 1970s, Gloria Petyarre was a founding member of the Utopia Women's Batik Group. With wonderful confidence, she merged the traditional iconography of the Anmatyerre onto the new medium of silk. A very innovative and dynamic artist, she exerted a great influence on others in the group. In the early 1980s Gloria Tamerre Petyarre made her first painting on canvas (for CAAMA's Summer Project exhibition) and soon developed her unique style of depicting the stories and her understanding of the traditional country. In 1995/96, she received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of The Australia Council.

Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
Flinders University, Adelaide
Griffith University Collection
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Supreme Court, Brisbane
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Westpac Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, U.S.A.
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Wollongong University Collection
Artbank, Sydney
Macquarie Bank
Singapore Art Museum
British Museum, London, U.K

Auction Record
$78,000 Bush Medicine 2004

Awards
1999 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W. 1993 Tapestry for Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Vic 1993 Mural for Kansas City Zoo, U.S.A. 1994 Tapestry Commission for the Law Courts, Brisbane, Qld

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