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Angelina Ngale (Pwerle)
Ahalpere, Utopia Region
Born to Nellie Petyarre in the arid desert area of Utopia Station in 1947, Angelina Ngale (also known as Angelina Pwerle) has become an Australian renowned aboriginal artist, with her work held in collections nationally and internationally. Initially Angelina began in the medium of batik when this begun in the late 1970’s at Utopia. When acrylics swept the Utopia region about a decade later, Angelina made the swift transition and has continued using this medium like other Utopia artists.
Becoming well known for her fine dot representations of the Anwekety (conkerberry, also known as conkleberry and bush plum), Angelina quickly became a household name amongst Australian Indigenous galleries. Like most other women, Angelina can paint the women’s ceremonial body paint designs (Awelye) which she does so with bold and colourful feel, though she paints much less of this. Angelina also enjoys painting another subject, the story of Atham-areny. Atham-areny are small creatures that live where there is no fire. On a trip home to Utopia in January 2003 with Mbantua’s field team, Angelina showed us the site of the Atham-areny story and agreed to paint this story for us. Angelina returned with her first two Atham-areny paintings later that month, both of which are now held in the Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection. Her Atham-areny paintings depict the women prepared to sing and dance with witch doctors to draw sickness out of those touched by the atham-areny creatures.
Collections Include:
Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne
Holmes á Court Collection, Perth
La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne
Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
National Gallery, Victoria
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Bank, Sydney.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Exhibitions Include:
1989, Utopia Women’s Paintings, the first works on canvas, Sydney
1992, Aboriginal Painting, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1993, Utopia Women, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1997, 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; 28th Alice Prize, Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs
1998, Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence, Italy
1998, Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1999, Blue Chip 11: The Collectors’ Exhibition Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2000, Not the done thing! Niagara Galleries, Sydney
2001, Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, Madrid and touring regional Spain
2002, Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, TN; 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, OR; Urban Wine Works, Portland, OR; Mary's Woods, Portland, OR
2003, Art from the Dreamtime, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR USA
2004, ‘Last of the 20th Century’, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2004-2006, Evolution of Utopia, Mbantua Gallery Cultural Museum, Alice Springs
2006, Camp Scenes and Utopia Life, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs
2008, Emily and Her Legacy, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo with Coo-ee Art Sydney in conjunction with the opening of the landmark retrospective exhibition Utopia – the Genius of Emily Kngwarreye at the National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
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