Marcia Turner Petyarre is one of the next generation of emerging Aboriginal Artists to come from the Utopia region.
 
The daughter of artist Margaret Turner Petyarre, Marcia spent much of her formative artistic years alongside the likes of Minnie Pwerle, Gloria Petyarre and Kathleen Petyarre. Whilst gaining inspiration from these leading artists Marcia has developed a […]

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Lilly Kelly Napangardi is a senior law woman of the Mt Liebig community, in the Haasts Bluff area of the Northern Territory, 325 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs.
Lilly Kelly was born at Haasts Bluff in 1948. She moved to the newly established settlement of Papunya in the 1960’s. During her time there, Lilly began her […]

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Kathleen Petyarre was born circa 1940, at the remote location of Atnangkere, on the western boundary of Utopia Station, 150 miles north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Kathleen belongs to the Alyawarre / Eastern Anmatyerre clan and speaks Eastern Anmatyerre, with English as her second language.
 
Kathleen, with her […]

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James is a Yolngu artist, his country is in the Northern Territory of Australia. 
His paintbrush is made of strands of hair tied to a small twig. The thickness of the lines and the way they are applied are very important - besides Skin, they tell the Clan and Country of the artist. Only the […]

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Jake Tjapaltjarri James is the son of outstanding artist, George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi. Like his father, Jake’s paintings primarily depict sacred sites associated with the Tingari Cycle. They are situated along the early journey paths of the Tingari Ancestors. The Tingari Ancestors shaped and impacted on the landscape of Jake’s homelands.
 
Walala Tjapaltjarri was born in the […]

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