EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
Language: Eastern Anmatyarre
Region: Utopia – Northern Territory
Date of Birth: c1910 (deceased 2 September 1996)
Content: Emily commenced painting on canvas in 1988/1989 after having worked with batik in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Emily’s Dreaming’s included: Body Paint, Bush Yam Dreaming and Country. At the beginning of her career Emily had a detailed approach to her painting that later became abstract.
Selected Collections:
- Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- Robert Holmes a Court Collection
- Artbank
- Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
- Vatican Collection, Italy
- Donald Kahn Collection, Love Art Museum, Univeristy of Miami, USA
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
- Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
- Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Awards:
- 1995 Australian Artists Creative Fellowship
- 1993 Churchill Art Fellowship
- 1992 Australia Council 2-year painting grant