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SP10786

Ceremony

Colleen Morton Kngwarreye

Colleen Morton Kngwarreye

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Acrylic on Canvas
Size
30 x 30cm
Year Painted
2024
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Artist Profile

Colleen was involved in the Utopia Women's Batik Group. Her work is represented …

Artist Profile

Artist Profile

Colleen Morton Kngwarreye
Born:

1957

Language Group:

Alyawarre

Country:

Ampilatwatja, North East of Alice Springs, Northern Territory

Medium:

Acrylic on Canvas and Linen, Batik on Silk

Subjects:

Country, Bush Medicine, Awelye (Women's Ceremony), Women Collecting Bush Medicine, Women Collecting Bush Tucker, Women Collecting Imuna (Bush Food) and Bush Medicine, Ceremony

Colleen was involved in the Utopia Women's Batik Group. Her work is represented in 'A Picture Story', a project initiated by CAAMA in the late 80's. When Colleen was a child, she was taught about bush medicines and how to collect them from her mother and grandmother.

COLLECTIONS
Mbantua Gallery Collection, Alice Springs, NT
The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth, WA
EXHIBITIONS
1989
Utopia Women's Paintings, the first Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-1989, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1988-1989
S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1990
Utopia - A Picture Story, an Exhibition of 88 works on Silk by Utopian artists, Holmes à Court Collection, toured Eire and Scotland
2011
Desert Mob Exhibition, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2012
Desert Mob Exhibition, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2014
Desert Mob Exhibition, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
AWARDS
2024
41st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT - Finalist
REFERENCES
Brody, A.
(1989) Utopia Women's Paintings The First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project 1988-89, exhib.cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth, WA
Brody, A.
(1990) Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings, Perth, WA
NATSIVAD
(1997) Database

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Artist Name, Artwork Size, Medium, Year Painted,

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Artist Name:
Colleen Morton Kngwarreye
Artwork Size:
30 x 30cm
Medium:
Acrylic on Canvas
Year Painted:
2024
Title:
Ceremony
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.

Description

Colleen paints Ceremony for the ancestral dreamtime stories which belong to her country, Ampilatwatja.

Two men can be seen preparing for ceremony. Linear designs are painted onto the chest, breasts, arms and thighs. Powders ground from red and yellow ochre (clays), charcoal and ash are used as body paint and applied with a flat stick with soft padding. Each man is wearing a traditional headdress made from human hair that has been cut, woven into a belt-like piece and worn on the head. They have with them some traditional tools, including a spear, clubs, coolamon and a number of boomerangs.

Ceremonies are performed to demonstrate respect for country and the total well-being and health of their community.

Located at
Mbantua Alice Gallery

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