Media Release Ultimate Art Emily Kngwarreye

1. EXHIBITION
Utopia Community
By the time indigenous artist
Emily Kame Kngwarreye had
died in 1996, the octogenarian
had created more than 3000
paintings in a relatively short
eight-year career. Her enduring
presence was demonstrated
when, almost a decade after her
death, her work Earth’s Creation
broke two world records at a
Sydney auction, selling for just
more than $1 million to become
the highest selling indigenous
work in the world, as well the
highest selling Australian
artwork by a woman. The series
was created in 1994 at her home
of Utopia, a settlement
northeast of Alice Springs. New
indigenous gallery Ultimate Art
will display Kngwarreye’s Wild
Flower Dreaming, painted in the
same workshop and in a similar
style to Earth’s Creation. The
exhibition also will survey
artists who hail from the same
area, including Minnie Pwerle
and Gloria Petyarre.
Ultimate Art Gallery. The Four
Seasons Hotel, 199 George Street,
Sydney. Tues-Fri, 10.30am-7pm;
Sat, 10am-4.30pm; Sun, 1pm-
4.30pm. Inquiries online.
Until November.
Copyright Agency licensed copy
(www.copyright.com.au)
The Australian, Australia
15 Sep 2015
Arts & Entertainment, page 14 - 57.00 cm²
National - circulation 104,774 (MTWTF)
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