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SP10644

Arlatyeye (Pencil Yam) Dreaming

Eileen Bird Kngwarreye

Eileen Bird Kngwarreye

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Medium
Acrylic on Canvas
Size
30 x 30cm
Year Painted
2024
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SP10644

Arlatyeye (Pencil Yam) Dreaming

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Artist Profile

Eileen is an Eastern Arrernte woman. Her family (nee Webb) grew up at Harts Rang…

Artist Profile

Artist Profile

Eileen Bird Kngwarreye
Born:

1956

Language Group:

Anmatyerre and Eastern Arrernte (Aranda)

Country:

Denipa Station, Northern Territory

Medium:

Acrylic on Canvas and Linen

Subjects:

Awelye (Women's Ceremony), Arlatyeye (Pencil Yam) Dreaming, Snake Dreaming

Eileen is an Eastern Arrernte woman. Her family (nee Webb) grew up at Harts Range where her brothers and sisters continue to live. Eileen was married to Paddy Bird (passed away in 2015), eldest son of well known Utopia artist, Ada Bird Petyarre. Eileen has eleven children and several grandchildren, many of whom paint for Mbantua Gallery also. Eileen has been painting for Mbantua Gallery since the mid 1990's.

COLLECTIONS
Mbantua Gallery Collection, Alice Springs, NT
EXHIBITIONS
1998
Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2002-2004
Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions

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Artist Name, Artwork Size, Medium, Year Painted,

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Artist Name:
Eileen Bird Kngwarreye
Artwork Size:
30 x 30cm
Medium:
Acrylic on Canvas
Year Painted:
2024
Title:
Arlatyeye (Pencil Yam) Dreaming
Free Shipping Worldwide!:
This painting on canvas 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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The designs in Eileen's painting are influenced by the Arlatyeye (Pencil Yam) Story belonging to her country, Denipa Station.

In the Dreamtime there are two parts to this story where two different seeds were born that created two different species of Pencil Yam, one called Atnwelarr and the other called Arlatyeye. Arlatyeye produces smaller yams and they are an important food source which can be eaten raw or cooked in hot sand and ashes. The Arlatyeye story is a major Dreamtime story for Eileen's country and ceremonies by her people are performed to ensure its productivity as a food source and life form of the ancestors.

Located at
Mbantua Alice Gallery