Emily Kame Kngwarreye (also spelt Emily Kam Kngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. After only starting painting as a septuagenarian, Kngwarreye became one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Indigenous Australian art. She was a ...

Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. Emily was born at the beginning of the 20th century and grew up in a remote desert area known as Utopia, 230 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, distant from the art world that sought her work.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Australian art.

1996年9月3日 · Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia’s most important Indigenous artists (some historians and curators have preferred to refer to her as an “Aboriginal” or “First Nations” artist). Living her whole life in the remote central desert region of Utopia, Kngwarreye had very little contact with the Western world before her mid ...

In an extraordinarily prolific eight years of professional painting, she produced magnificent canvases in which she appears to have aimed for essentialist visions of the multiplicities and connectedness of her country, as imaged in terms of its organic energies.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye painted expressive representations of the Dreaming, the English word used to describe the Australian Aboriginal cosmology, which includes narratives about ancestral spirits who created the universe. Like other contemporary painters, Kngwarreye developed an abstract visual language that alludes to these narratives.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, 1994. Photo: Greg Weight.

2024年7月22日 · Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an influential Aboriginal Australian artist, celebrated for her dynamic and abstract depictions of the natural world and traditional Indigenous culture. Born in the remote Utopia community in the Northern Territory, Kngwarreye began her artistic career late in life, around the age of 80.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an influential Australian artist associated with Indigenous Australian art. She was born in 1910 in Alhalkere, Australia and passed away in 1996 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. Her work, which includes batik and acrylic painting, often depicts flora, fauna, dreamtime figures, and ancestral stories.

2022年3月26日 · Among Australia’s most revered artists, Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996), or Emily, as she became widely known, grew up in the remote central desert region of Utopia, where she had only sporadic contact with the world beyond her own community.