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MB045456

Atnwelarre (Pencil Yam) and Kame (Seed)

Evelyn Pultara (Petyarre)

Evelyn Pultara (Petyarre)

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Medium
Acrylic on Linen
Size
30 x 30cm
Year Painted
2007
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MB045456

Atnwelarre (Pencil Yam) and Kame (Seed)

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Artist Profile

Evelyn is a well known and respected artist of the Utopia region, though she beg…

Artist Profile

Artist Profile

Evelyn Pultara (Petyarre)
Born:

c. 1940

Language Group:

Anmatyerre

Country:

Alhalkere, Utopia Region, North East of Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Medium:

Acrylic on Canvas and Linen

Subjects:

Atnwelarre (Pencil Yam) and Kame (Seed), Awelye (Women's Ceremony), Bush Tucker

Evelyn is a well known and respected artist of the Utopia region, though she began her career much later than others of her age and prestige. The Utopia Art movement began in 1978 with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and moved on to acrylic painting during CAAMA's Summer Project in 1988. Evelyn began painting with depictions of traditional bush tucker and awelye (women's ceremonial body paint designs) in 1997 well after it began, but quickly became a sought after artist with her representation of the Pencil Yam Dreaming.

Atnwelarre, the pencil yam, and Kame, the seed of this plant, are very important Dreamtime stories that belong to Evelyn's country Alhalkere in the Utopia Region, North East of Alice Springs. The Atnwelarre is a trailing herb or creeper, sometimes covering large areas, with bright green leaves, yellow flowers and long skinny yams (swollen roots) which are an important food source and can be eaten raw or cooked in hot sand and ashes. It has been said that Evelyn's paintings impart the rhythm of the yam corroborree enacted and retold through song and dance and it is her responsibility to pay homage to it in this way, and now also through her artwork.

Evelyn has a strong culture of painting in her family. Some artists to note are her brother the late Greeny Purvis Petyarre, sister Dolly Mills Petyarre and her great aunt, the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye who was dubbed by art experts as one of the world's best modern and abstract artists.

While Evelyn's work has been shown in group exhibitions since the late 1990's, her first solo exhibition was held at the World Vision Gallery in Sydney's Leichardt in 2003. This was followed by solo shows in Milan, Melbourne and Sydney. In 2005 Evelyn won first prize in the General Painting section of the 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. This award is the most prestigious art award for indigenous artists in Australia.

COLLECTIONS
Mbantua Gallery Collection, Alice Springs, NT
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth, WA

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Artist Name, Artwork Size, Medium, Year Painted,

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Artist Name:
Evelyn Pultara (Petyarre)
Artwork Size:
30 x 30cm
Medium:
Acrylic on Linen
Year Painted:
2007
Title:
Atnwelarre (Pencil Yam) and Kame (Seed)
Free Shipping Worldwide!:
This painting on linen will be shipped in a cylinder to you free of charge, worldwide! An option to have this painting 'stretched' onto a wooden frame may be available. If selected, further charges will apply and will be calculated at checkout.

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Atnwelarre, the Pencil Yam, and Kame, the seed of this plant, are the subject of Evelyn's painting. The Atnwelarre is a trailing herb or creeper, sometimes covering large areas, with bright green leaves, yellow flowers and long skinny yams (swollen roots). These are an important food source which can be eaten raw or cooked in hot sand and ashes.

In the Dreamtime there are two parts to the Kame story. Two different seeds were born that created two different species of Pencil Yam, one called Atnwelarre which belongs to Evelyn's country, and the other called Arlatyeye which belongs to Arnumarra country.

Located at
Mbantua Alice Gallery