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Gloria Petyarre was born in approximately 1945 in the region of Utopia, located 270kms northeast from Alice Springs. Her language is Anmatyerre and her country is Aknangkere. Gloria is one of seven sisters who are also artists, such as the well-known Kathleen Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre, Violet Petyarre and Ada Bird.

Gloria first gained recognition as an artist working in the medium of Batik, exhibiting with other Utopia women in shows around Australia and abroad from 1977 to 1987. In 1988 Gloria took up the medium of canvas and painted her first work for CAAMA (The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) in the exhibition titled – “Utopia Women’s Painting; The First Works of Canvas; a Summer Project 1988 – 1989.”

In 1990 – 1991, Gloria traveled to Ireland, London and India as a representative of the Utopia women accompanying the exhibition “Utopia – A Picture Story”. The exhibition was mounted in Dublin at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Tandanya, Adelaide, and The Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne.

In 1991, Gloria had her first solo exhibition at Australian Galleries in New York and at Utopia Art, Sydney, where she had other solo shows from 1993 to 1995.

Gloria’s work has been included in major survey exhibitions including –

1991 Art Gallery of New South Wales touring Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition

1992  “Flash Painting” – National Gallery of Australia.

1992 “The Body Paint Collection” at Bishop Museum, Hawaii, which also toured the United States.

1993 Gloria received a Tapestry Commission for the Victorian Tapestry Workshop and in 1994 for the Law Court in Brisbane

In 1995/96 Gloria received a Full Fellowship grant from the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council, and in March 1999 was awarded
the coveted Wynne prize.

Gloria’s work is in the collection of almost every major Art Gallery in each capital city and in the Holmes a Court collection. In 1998, a work on paper was acquired by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, a major canvas by the "Levi Collection" in Seattle, USA, and a Kansas City institution requested Gloria in conjunction with her husband, Ronnie Price, to design a mural which is now a highlighted and main attraction.

She is featured on the cover of Michael Bolton’s “The Art of Utopia” and more recently in “Fire and Shadow” by Anna Voight and Nevill Drury and in “New Visions. New Perspectives” by Anna Voight. Also recently Gloria is featured in the book "Dreamings Of The Desert" published by The Art Gallery of South Australia.

Gloria's main Dreamings are "Mountain Devil", "Bush Medicine" and "Aknangkere Growth'.  In "Mountain Devil Dreaming" Gloria uses a bold linear design accompanied with a small amount of dotwork to depict this small lizard like creature. Alternatively Gloria may cover the entire canvas using small intricate dotwork in various colours creating an almost three-dimensional effect. Both styles are indicative of Gloria's extraordinary talent for colour and pattern.

"Bush Medicine Dreaming" depicts the leaves of a particular type of shrub that has medicinal qualities, and Gloria uses a range of different brush strokes to represent the
growth of the leaves at certain times of the year.

More recently Gloria has developed a series of works that are even more contemporary in style and are known as "Aknangkere Growth". Gloria depicts her Country using lines of colour that run onto the canvas and are intermingled with a variety of dotwork. These paintings are rich in texture and layering and are testament to Gloria’s artistic flair.

 

    EXHIBITIONS

Mar 1988 Group exhibition, “Time Before Time”, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA.

May 1989 Group Exhibition, “A Summer Project”, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

1990 Traveling group batik exhibition, “Utopia – A Picture Story”,
 the Holmes a Court Collection, Ireland, England, France, Thailand
 & India.

June 1990 Group Exhibition, “Tagari Lia: My Family”, Third Eye Centre,
 Glasgow, Ireland.

Nov 1990 Group exhibition, “Utopia Men and Dogs”, Austral Gallery,
 St Louis, USA.

Feb 1991 Group Exhibition, Australian Galleries, New York, USA.

June 1991 Group Exhibition, “Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition”, Art Gallery
 of NSW, Sydney, NSW.
 
Sept 1991 Group exhibition, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.

June 1992 Group traveling exhibition, “Nangara”, Aboriginal Gallery of
 Dreamings, Melbourne, Australia and internationally.

July 1992 Group exhibition, “New Tracks Old Lands”, Boston and touring
 US.
 
Nov 1992 Group exhibition, “Aboriginal Art: Utopia in the Desert”,
 Nogizaki Arthall , Tokyo, Japan.

Aug 1993 Solo exhibition, “Awelye”, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.

Jan 1994 Solo exhibition, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.

Jan 1995 Combined exhibition, DACOU Gallery, Adelaide, SA.

May 1995 Solo exhibition, “Gloria Petyarre: On the Line”, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.

March 1996 Combined exhibition, Framed, Darwin, NT.

July 1996 Combined exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.

August 1996 Solo exhibition, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.

August 1996 Combined exhibition, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

Jan 1997 Combined exhibition, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

Jan 1997 Combined exhibition, DACOU Gallery, Adelaide, SA.

Jan 1997 Participated in the artist in residence program at the Art Gallery of South Australia in the exhibition “Dreamings of the Desert”, SA.

April 1997 Solo exhibition, “Instant Pictures”, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW.

June 1997 Combined exhibition “Ten Years On”, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

July 1997 Combined exhibition, Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

Aug 1997 Selected entrant in the Telstra 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for 1997, Darwin, NT.

Dec 1997 Solo exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

Dec 1997 Combined exhibition, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.

Feb 1998 Combined exhibition 'Women Painters Of The Desert" FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.

April 1998 Solo exhibition at Robert Steele Gallery- Adelaide, SA.

May 1998 Combined exhibition "Utopia IV" Quadrivium Gallery,
 Sydney, NSW.

May 1998 Combined exhibition "The Ladies Of Utopia", Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT.

June 1998 Solo exhibition, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW.

June 1998 Combined exhibition- SCECGS Redlands – Sydney, NSW.

Sept 1998 Combined exhibition- Flinders Lane Gallery- Melbourne, VIC.

Nov 1998 Solo exhibition "The Aknangkere Growth Paintings"-First
 Release - Chapman Gallery- Canberra, ACT.

Nov 1998 Solo exhibition, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre, Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW.

Dec 1998 Combined exhibition in The Adelaide Festival Theatre, SA.

1991-2001 Group exhibition, “Spirit Country”, San Francisco and touring USA.

Feb 1999 Combined exhibition "Utopia"- BMG art- Adelaide, SA.

March 1999 Recipient of the Wynne Landscape Prize, NSW.

April 1999 Self titled solo exhibition- Flinders Lane Gallery- Melbourne, VIC.

May 1999 "Bush Garden"- combined exhibition - Japingka Gallery- Fremantle, WA.

May 1999 Combined exhibition - "Quadrivium Gallery"- Sydney, NSW.

June 1999 Combined exhibition "Caring For Country"- Tandanya Cultural
 Institute, Adelaide, SA.

July 1999 Solo Exhibition, Red Desert Gallery, Eumundi, Queensland.

August 1999 Combined exhibition "Flinders Lane Gallery"- Melbourne, VIC.

August 1999 Combined exhibition - Gallery Savah- Sydney, NSW.

September 1999 Combined exhibition- North Shore Fine Art- Sydney, NSW.

October 1999 Solo exhibition, “Gloria Petyarre: A Survey”, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW.

November 1999 Solo exhibition, “Wildflowers”, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, NT.

December 1999 Combined exhibition with Jack Britten- Chapman Gallery- Canberra, ACT.

February 2000 Combined Exhibition - "An Affair to Remember" - ArtSauce - Singapore.

May 2000 Combined exhibition- Quadrivium Gallery- Sydney, NSW.

May 2000 Combined exhibition- Tandanya Cultural Institute- Adelaide, SA.

September 2000 DACOU in association with AMP- an official sponsor of the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, held a mixed Utopia art exhibition
in the AMP building, Sydney.

September 2000 Combined exhibition - Mary Place Gallery- Sydney, NSW.

November 2000 Combined exhibition -SCECGS Redlands Art Prize- Sydney, NSW.

May 2001  ‘Painting Country”- combined exhibition at Tandanya Cultural
  Institute, Adelaide SA.

May 2001 “Desert Colour, My Country”- combined exhibition at Raintree
 Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin NT.

June 2001 “Two Women- Dreamings”- exhibited with Barbara Weir at
 Dreamtime Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

July 2001  “Women Artist of the Australian Desert”, combined exhibition
  At Gallery 2021, Auckland, New Zealand.

September  2001   Group exhibition, “Recounting the Essence of Life -  Art from
     Australia”. Artforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. (In
     cooperation with Aboriginal Art  Galerie, Bähr, Speyer)

2002    Group traveling exhibition, “Mythology & Reality” Palazzo
    Bricherasio Turin, Italy; AAM Utrecht, Netherlands; Monash
    University Prato Centre, Italy; Jerusalem Centre for the
    Performing Arts, Israel; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW.; Heide
    Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC.

April 2002 Mixed Utopia exhibition at Knut Grothe Galeri in Charlottlenlund
 Copenhagen, Denmark.

April 2002 ‘Paintings From Utopia”- combined exhibition at ‘Framed- The Darwin Gallery”, Darwin, NT

May 2002 Mixed Utopia exhibition at Galerie a Le Temps Du Reve, France.

May 2002 “Contemporary Aboriginal Art From The Utopia Region”- combined exhibition at BMGART, Adelaide, SA.

June 2002  Group exhibition, “The Craft and the Light, Art of Australia”,
   Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany, (in Co-operation
   with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer).

June 2002    ‘Images and Identity’, Ev. Akademie Iserlohn, Germany (in
     Cooeperation with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer)

June 2002 Solo exhibition, “Leaves You Thinking”, World Vision of Australia, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

July 2002 ‘Generations Utopia’- mixed exhibition at Japingka Gallery,
 Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia.

August 2002 Solo exhibition of Aknangkere Growth paintings at Gallery
 Savah, Sydney, NSW.

Sept 2002 Group Exhibition, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW.

Aug 2002 Group exhibition, “Crossroads: The Millennium Portfolio of Aboriginal Prints”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.

March 2003   ‘ Big Country’. Works from the Flinders University Art Museum
      collection, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA.

April 2003   ‘The Other Side of the Land, Art from Central Australia’, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany ( in cooperation with the Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer).

Aug 2003   Solo exhibition, “Sydney Art Fair”, Gallery Savah, Sydney, NSW.

June 2004    Group Exhibition, ‘Sanjski cas. Dreamtime’, Cankarjev dom,
   Ljubljana, Slovenia.

July 2004  Bilderwelten in Utopia. Holzschnitte und Gemaelde vom
   Aborigines, Staedtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen,    Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Germany, (in cooperation with the
   Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer).

Aug 2004  Die inneren und die äußeren Dinge. Stadtgalerie Bamberg Villa
   Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany, (in cooperation with the Aboriginal    Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer) ..

March 2005 Solo exhibition, “Recent Paintings”, Gallery Savah, Sydney,     NSW.

Sept 2005  ‘Summer in the Desert’  Group Exhibition, Hogarth Galleries,
   Sydney, NSW.

2005-2006 With Ada Petyarre, “Black Abstract”, Woolloongabba Art Gallery  and  touring, Brisbane, QLD.

Aug 2006 Group exhibition, APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition, Rio Tinto
 Offices, Melbourne, VIC.

May 2007 Group  exhibition, ‘Utopia in New York’. Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA.

July 2007 Group exhibition, “Utopia”, Australian Embassy, Washington, USA.

July 2007 Group exhibition, “Desert Diversity”, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.

Aug 2007 Group exhibition, “Treasures of the Spirit – Investment in Aboriginal Art”, Tandanya Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA.

Sep 2007 Group exhibition, APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition with Rio Tinto, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.

Oct 2007  “New Works from Utopia”, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Feb 2008 “Utopia Revisited”, NG Art Gallery, Chippendale, NSW. 

Collections

Allen, Allen & Hemsley;
Art Bank Sydney;
Art Gallery of New South Wales;
Art Gallery of Western Australia;
Australian National Gallery;
Baker-McKenzie;
Campbelltown City Art Gallery;
Flinders University, South Australia;
Gold Coast City Art Gallery;
Griffith University Collection;
Holmes a Court Collection;
Kerry Stokes Collection;
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery;
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne;
National Gallery of Victoria;
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney;
Queensland Art Gallery;
Queensland University of Technology;
Riddoch Art Gallery, S.A.;
Supreme Court, Brisbane;
The Robert Holmes a Court Collection;
University of New South Wales;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, U.S.A.;
Westpac, New York;
James D. Wolfensohn Collection;
Woollongong City Art Gallery;
Woollongong University Collection;
Macquarie Bank;
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland;
Singapore Art Museum;
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory;
British Museum.

 

Awards

1993  Design for tapestry for Victorian Tapestry Workshop

1993  Mural for Kansas City Zoo

1998 National Works on Paper Award, MPRG

1999 Wynne Landscape Prize, Gallery of NSW, Sydney

1999  Fellowship, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, Australia Council