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