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Gracie Morton Pwerle  1956-2024

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Gracie Morton Pwerle (1956-2024) is an renowned Australian artist. She was one of the senior traditional custodians for both Altyerre Dreamings. Gracie career began in the 1970's with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the 1980's. Her work has been held in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie worked with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie is a niece of Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996), Gracie is the daughter of Myrtle Petyarre (1932-2014), who was the sister to Ada (1930-2009), Nancy (1934-2009), Kathleen (1940-2018), Gloria (1945-2021), Violet (1945-2010) and Jean Petyarre (1956-2022).

Gracie distinctively minimalistic style is recognized as one of the World’s finest, state-of-the-art modern abstract. Gracie paintings have the physical presence of the much contemporary work of art, and give the impression of the multi-dimensional space and depth. Gracie work is in the World Art Market collections including Museum Kunstpalast Germany, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery.

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Gracie Pwerle Morton 1956-2024
Yellow Bush Plum (2005)

Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 130 x 120 cm
ready to hang vertical or horizontal

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PROVENANCE:
Ryszard Bednarowicz B.A. Art History) University of Queensland; M.A. Art History University of Melbourne; Author of “Aboriginal Art”; Curator of Aboriginal art in Alice Springs.

Gracie Morton
Bush Plum
Acrylic on linen

Price:  SOLD 

Gracie Morton
Bush Plum
Acrylic on linen

Price:  SOLD

Gracie Morton
 Bush Plum
Acrylic on linen

Price:  SOLD

Gracie Morton Pwerle aka Gracie Morton Pwerl Biography

Language Group: Alyawarre.

Gracie Morton Petyarre Pwerle is an accomplished well-established Australian artist. There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Born circa 1956, Gracie Morton is the daughter of a senior artist Myrtle Petyarre.

Gracie's mother was Myrtle Petyarre (1932-2014) who was sister to Ada (1930-2009), Nancy (1934-2009), Kathleen (1940-2018), Gloria (1945-2021), Violet (1945-2010) and Jean Petyarre (1956-2022). All sisters were paiting stories of Mountain Devil Lizard - Arnkerrthe which is one of the dreamings from Atnangkere and Alhalkere country.

Gracie Morton Petyarre Pwerle career began in the early 1970's when she gained recognition as an artist working with the Utopia Women's Batik group. She was exhibiting her work with the Utopia women in Australia and overseas. Gracie earlier works are quite typical of "Utopia Art" Much line work depicting body-paint designs, and many tradition symbols are seen in her central desert dot paintings.

Funded by the government Arts programs and the support of CAAMA 88, the Utopia women created a major work entitled "A picture story: This was later acquired by the Holms a Court collection and later exhibited at Tandanya in Adelaide in 1989.

Gracie Morton began painting in acrylics in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia.

From 1988 Gracie continue painting solely on canvas and using acrylic paints. She prefers the greater freedom and control through the medium of acrylic paints on canvas.

Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continues across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation uses an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Amwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.

Gracie Morton distinctively minimalistic style is recognized as one of the World’s best modern state-of-the-art abstract.

Gracie uses microscopically tiny dot technique, creates inspiring almost hypnotic artworks, painting with fascinating accuracy of intricate details.

Gracie Morton is a successful artist in the World Art Market, her paintings have the sheer physical presence of the much contemporary work of art, and multi-dimensional space and depth.  

Coming from Kngwarreye family, Gracie Morton  creates inspiring, modern paintings with fascinating accuracy of intricate details, subtle shades of colour that moves with the viewer’s eyes and floats in air and have the physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.

Gracie Pwerl Morton is one of the senior traditional custodian for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of related country, some 263kms north of Alice Springs, Australia.

In accordance to traditional law the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.

An Alyawarre woman from Utopia Station, approximately 250km north-east of Alice Springs, Gracie's works are represented in major private collections such as The Robert Holmes a Court Collection in Western Australia.

Selected Exhibitions

Gracie exhibits regularly in Australia, more recently in a solo show titled 'Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist' at Ancient Earth Indigenous Art Gallery in Cairns and in a group exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy in Canberra.

Gracie Pwerle Morton - Bush Plum

Literature Source & FURTHER REFERENCES

The Robert Holmes à Court Collection. Brody, A. (Hrsg.), Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc., Adelaide 1989 ; Utopia Women's Paintings: The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project 1988-89. Brody, A. (Hrsg.), Heytesbury Holdings, Perth 1989.

Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical Dictionary" by Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994

Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody, A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database.
 

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