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Violet Petyarre

Violet Petyarre

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Violet Petyarre was born at Atnagkere, on the western boundary of Utopia Station, 170 miles north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Central Australia. Violet has six sisters Gloria, Kathleen, Myrtle, Nancy, Jean and Ada Bird and a brother.

Like the majority of her sisters, Violet was involved in the batik movement that established the women artists of Utopia. Her work is represented in the Homes a Court collection. Her paintings are acrylic on canvas or linen.

Violet, her sisters and brothers are the custodians of Arnkerrth (Mountain Devil Lizard or Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming), Green Pea Dreaming, Atnangkerre (Women Hunting), Ankerr (Emu) and Arengk (Dingo) Dreaming). All of her paintings directly refer to these "Dreamings" and the associated country around Utopia in the eastern central desert of Australia. Violet and her sisters (they all have the same father and four mothers), Ada Bird Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre, Kathleen Petyarre, Myrtle Petyarre and Jean Petyarre all paint these Dreamings.

Group Exhibitions
· 1989 S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
· 1989 Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, Australia
· 1989 Coventry Gallery, Sydney, Australia
· 1989 Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, Australia
· 1990 The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia
· 1990 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
· 1990 The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
· 1990 Limmerick City Gallery of Art, Limmerick, Ireland
· 1990 James Ford Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, USA
· 1990 Lakewood Centre for the Arts, Lake Oswego, USA
· 1996 Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, Australia
· 1996 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
· 1997 Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
· 2004 Cicada Trading in Denver, USA
· 2004 Cicada Trading at Emily's, Clear Lake, Houston, USA
· 2005 Cicada Trading at Illayda Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
· 2005 Cicada Trading in Milan, Italy
· 2005 Cicada Trading at Emily's, Clear Lake, Houston, USA
· 2005 Cicada Trading at New York Affordable Art Fair, New York, USA - exhibited with the Australian Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery of New York.
· 2006 Cicada Trading Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
· 2006 Cicada Trading MiArt 06, Milan Art Fair, Milan, Italy - exhibited under the Australian Pavilion
· 2006 Cicada Trading in Paris, France
· 2006 Cicada Trading in Houston, USA
· 2006 Cicada Trading Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
· 2006 Cicada Trading in Abu Dhabi, UAE
· 2006 Cicada Trading at the Bahrain Arts Society, the Kingdom of Bahrain
· 2007 Cicada Trading in Abu Dhabi, UAE
· 2007 Cicada Trading in Canterbury, UK
· 2007 Cicada Trading in Paris, France
· 2007 Cicada Trading in Houston, France

Collections
· The Robert Holmes a Court Collection, WA, Australia
· Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, S.A. Australia.
· The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, CA., USA.


Batik
· The Robert Holmes a Court Collection, WA, Australia depicted in a book entitled Utopia – A Picture Story



Last Updated - Nov 3, 2021