Nancy Petyarre

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Nancy Petyarre 


Also Known As: Nancy Kunoth 

Born:   	1934 
State: 	NT 
Region: 	Central Desert 
Community: 	Utopia Store 
Outstation: 	Atnangkere 
Language: 	Anmatyerre 
Social Affiliation: 	Petyarre subsection 

Medium: Batik on cotton fabric, Batik on silk, acrylic paint on wood carving, water bowl.

Collections: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Exhibitions: 2006 - Utopia, Galerie DAD, France. 2004 - Reves de Femmes, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France. 2003 - Tactility: two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1997 - L'Art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie o Stephane Jacob / Galerie de Stassart, Bruxelles.; L'Art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie o Stephane Jacob / Espace Paul Riquet, Beziers. 1994 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs; Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek, NT. 1993 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. 1992 - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. 1990 - Utopia - A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland. 1989 - Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Select Bibliography: Brody, A., 1989, Utopia Women's Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth. (C) ; Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth. (C) Birnberg & Kreczmanski, Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies, JB Publishing, (C). � Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies