Angelina is a renowned aboriginal artist with works in collections around the world. She enjoys painting, especially the Atham-areny - creatures that live where there is no fire.#url#
Born: 1947
Language Group: Anmatyerre
Country: Ahalpere, Utopia Region, North East of Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas and Linen, Batik on Silk, Wood Carving
Subjects: Atham-areny Story, Anwekety (Conkerberry), Awelye (Women's Ceremony), Awelye (Women's Ceremony) for Anwekety (Conkerberry), Women's Story
Born to Nellie Petyarre in the arid desert area of Utopia Station in 1947, Angelina 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
Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne, VIC
The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth, WA
La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne, VIC
Mbantua Gallery Collection, Alice Springs, NT
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Exhibitions
1994
The Oval Board Collection, Bishop Museum, Hawaii, USA
1996
Painted People, Sculpture from Utopia, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
1997
14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
1998
Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence, Italy
1998
Art Gallery Culture Store, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1998
Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
2000
Not the done thing!, Niagara Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2001
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2001
Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, Madrid and touring regional Spain
2002-2004
Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions
2005
Small Wonders, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2004-2006
Evolution of Utopia - opened by the Honorable Robert Hill, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2006
Camp Scenes and Utopia Life, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2008
Emily and Her Legacy, Hillside Gallery with Coo-ee Art Sydney, Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS
2006
23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT - Finalist
2010
27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT - Finalist
References
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