Title

Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkere, Paintings from Utopia.

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (13 February 1999 – 26 April 1999)

Date

(1999)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (ACT).

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

In the 1990s, Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c.1910-1996) emerged as one of Australia's leading painters. The exhibition traces the brief but impressive career of this artist who started painting in the public arena when she was in her eighties. Kngwarreye's prominence is no overnight sensation; her work finds its roots in a lifetime of ritual and artistic activity. Her energetic paintings are a response to the land of her birth, Alhalkere, north of Alice Springs. [Gallery media, 1999].