Gloria Petyarre

Gloria Petyarre was born in Atnangkere, north of Alice Springs. She began her art work by making batiks and later in 1984 switched to painting with acrylics on canvas. Gloria was versatile in style and painted a number of dreaming such as Mountain Bush Medicine, Devil Lizard, Bean, Grass Seeds, …

In 1990 Gloria Petyarre travelled to Ireland, England and India to display her paintings at the Utopia Art exhibition.

In 1995-96, she received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australian Council and won Australia’s most prestigious art award, the ‘Wynne Painting Prize’, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Collections:

• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

• Australian National Gallery, Canberra

• Parliament House, Canberra

• Federal Court Collection, Perth

• Flinders University, South Australia

• Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA

• Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

• Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA

• British Museum, London 

• Gallery Rai, Tokyo, Japan

• Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand

• Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria

• And many more…..