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Judy Purvis
Kngwarreye
B. 1962
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 Judy
Purvis
Kngwarreye
was
born into
famous
artistic family,
the daughter to Kathleen Kemarre
and
Greeny Purvis Petyarre.
In 1977
Judy
Kngwarreye
was
involved with the
Papunya Tula
Utopia Women's Batik Group and her work is featured in
the prestigious
'Utopia A Picture Story book'.
Judy work
is
held
in
collections
around the world.
Her state-of-the-art bird's-eye-view,
modern, mysterious, mesmerizing
landscapes have the sheer physical presence of much contemporary work of art and
build up the multi-dimensional topography of depth and space.
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Judy Purvis Kngwarreye
Flowers
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Judy
Purvis Kngwarreye
Biography
Judy
Purvis
Kngwarreye
was
born into artistic family,
she is daughter to
Kathleen Kemarre
and
Greeny Purvis Petyarre.
Judy was
raised
by a generation of famous Australian indigenous artists
was exposed to family artist's experience and success
Judy
destined to be a great artist.
Judy great aunt is
Emily Kngwarreye
(1910-1996) one of
the most famous Australian artist
and
Judy's father's
sister
Gloria Mills Petyarre
(B.1932).
Judy's
family
encompass
many
widely acknowledged Australian artists including
Gloria Petyarre
(B.1945),
Anna Petyarre
(B.1965),
Lindsay Bird
(B.1935) and sister
Maureen Purvis.
Judy
inherited the family creative artistic gene however she
created her own unique and
distinctive contemporary style.
Judy has been involved with the
Papunya Tula
Utopia Woman's
Batik Group since 1977.
Judy is featured in the prestigious
'Utopia A Picture Story book'.
Judy
Purvis work has
the physical presence of much contemporary work of art.
Judy
works has been
featured
in many group exhibitions and
represented
in collections around the
world including
Austral Gallery Regional Art Commission St Louis USA,
Royal Hibernian
Academy Dublin,
Utopia Art Sydney,
Orange
Regional Art Gallery,
Homes a Court Collection,
Kerry Stokes collection,
Art Bank,
Mbantua gallery & cultural museum,
Araluen
Arts Centre.
Judy
Purvis
Kngwarreye
has
been involved with the Utopia Batik movement and her work features in
the Holmes á Court collection and a prestigious book 'Utopia A Picture
Story'. Judy paintings were featured in many group exhibitions since
1977.
Papunya Tula Artists
cooperative was
formed in 1972 and owned by
Aboriginal people from
the
Western Desert of
Australia.
Judy Purvis and sister
Maureen
Purvis
were raised
by a generation of indigenous artists including great aunt
Emily Kngwarreye
(1910-1996) one of
the most famous Australian artist.
Judy's
father, Greeny Purvis Petyarre
and mother, Kathleen Kemarre are both recognized
artists.
Judy (same as sister
Maureen)
exposed to the family experience
were destined to be a artists,
however Judy Purvis
created her own
unique
style.
Judy
Purvis paintings have
the physical presence of much contemporary work of art.
Judy
pays particular attention to details,
she creates
inspiring paintings of 'Pencil Yam Seeds'
with fascinating accuracy of microscopic dots and subtle shades of
colour, attaining the multi-dimensional illusion when the image
that moves with the viewer’s eyes and
floats in the air.
Judy paints
Kame,
Awelye,
Bush Tucker and
Bush
Scenes.
In the Dreamtime there are two parts to the
Kame story, one that belongs
to Alhalkere and Atnangkere countries, and the other that belongs to
Arnumarra country.
Two different seeds were born that created two
different species of Pencil Yam, one called
Atnwelarr which belongs to
Judy’s country, and the other called Arlatyeye which belongs to
Arnumarra country.
The Kame story is a major Dreamtime story for Judy’s
country and ceremonies by her people are performed to ensure its
productivity as a food source and life form of the ancestors.
Judy
Purvis Kngwarreye
Dreamtime stories belongs to Judy’s country Alhalkere
in the Utopia Region located North East of Alice Springs.
Judy
paintings
of Pencil Yam Seed Dreaming,
Awelye Women’s Ceremony and Body Paint
Designs, Bush Tucker and Bush Scenes are very attractive
works.
Judy uses soft dot work and beautiful colours
in this painting to represent the
Kame
background designs are inspired by the leaf and root system
of the
Atnwelarr.
Legend
'Kame':
Pencil Yam Seed Dreaming
'Atnwelarr':
Pencil Yam
'Awelye': Women’s Ceremony and Body Paint Designs
'Bush Tucker': food
'Bush
Scenes': landscape scenes
COLLECTIONS
Judy
Purvis
work is represented
in
public and private
collections around the
world:
Austral Gallery Regional Art Commission St Louis
USA
Royal
Hibernian Academy Dublin
Utopia Art Sydney
Orange
Regional Art Gallery
Homes a Court Collection
Kerry Stokes collection
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Art Bank Sydney
Mbantua gallery & cultural museum
Araluen Arts Centre
 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1977
Royal
Hibernian Academy Dublin
1977
Utopia Art Sydney
1977
Orange
Regional Art Gallery
1978
Austral Gallery Regional Art Commission St Louis
USA
1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings, the First Works On Canvas, A Summer
Project
1988-89, S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
1990 Utopia - A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from
the Robert
Homes a Court Art Gallery Collection by Utopia Artists
1990 Utopia - A Picture Story, toured Eire and
Scotland
2002 Mbantua Gallery Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2002 Mbantua Gallery 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, Oregon USA
(Benefit - OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2002 Mbantua Gallery Urban Wine Works, Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit
– OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2002 Mbantua Gallery Mary's Woods, Portland, Oregon USA (Benefit –
OHSU Heart Research Centre)
2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Knoxville, Tennessee March
Mbantua gallery & cultural museum
2005 Yam Dreaming Atnwelarre,
Araluen Arts Centre Mbantua Gallery Alice Springs NT
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Source
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FURTHER REFERENCES
Australian
Aboriginal Artist dictionary of biographies
Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region by
Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo
JB Publishing
Australia, Marleston, 2004
Aboriginal Artists of the Western
Desert - A Biographical Dictionary" by Vivien Johnson, Craftsman House 1994
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP 2000
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; Latz, P.
1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs;
Heytesbury Holdings LTD
Perth NATSIVAD database; Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires and
Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs;
Aboriginal
Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical Dictionary by
Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994;
The Oxford
Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP 2000;
Australian Aboriginal Artist
dictionary of biographies”
by Janusz Kreczmanski and
Margo Birnberg, (eds.) Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of
Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley
Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004
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
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