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Honey Ant Gallery
artist – Kudditji Kngwarreye
Artist’s profile »
community – Utopia
title: My Country
year painted: 2012
dimensions: 120 x 120cm
medium: Acrylic on canvas
code: 1550
stretched: yes
This artwork can be viewed at our Sydney gallery.
about this painting & Kudditji:
Born c.1928, Kudditji was a younger brother of the famous Utopian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Sadly Kudditji passed away on 23rd January 2017, while living at “Old Timers” on the outskirts of Alice Springs.
He had a traditional bush upbringing in the country to the north of Alice Springs. This vast area was named “Utopia” by the early German settlers who established cattle stations there. Kudditji worked on these stations as a young man – as a stockman and a fencer.
He was living and working in his own country. Kudditji became a very respected elder of the Anmatyerre people and would take the young men out hunting emu as part of their initiation as men.
In 1986 he started painting in the traditional detailed pointillist style. But in the 1990’s he suddenly and radically changed his style and began to use a large brush heavily loaded with colour. He covered the canvas in large blocks of vibrant colour that was both creative and exciting.
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DOB: c.1938 – 2017
BORN: Lallguora, Paradise, NT
Parlance GROUP: Anmatyerre
COMMUNITY: Garden of eden, NT
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Emily Kngwarreye Biography and CV
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c. 1910-1996) is one of the most successful and acclaimed Aboriginal artists in Australia's history. Emily was a senior elder of the Anmatyerre community and resident at Utopia in the Northern Territory, a former cattle station reclaimed by its Indigenous Australian owners in 1979.
Emily's laughter was captivating and electrifying, like her paintings. She had a great sense of humour and a confident demeanour, which, when coupled with her loud yet melodious voice and complex wit made her a fascinating character indeed. Like her art, she was never boring, always colourful and occasionally unpredictable.
Emily was born at Alhalkere in the northwest corner of Utopia Station, and grew up working on various cattle stations. In June 1934 at approximately twenty-four years old, Emily strode into the Macdonald Downs Homestead (100 kilometres east of Alhalkere) and announced to one and all that she intended to work in the house and muster cattle with sisters Jessie Holt (née Chalmers) and Jean Weir (née Chalmers). Working together, the women became firm friends, often chasing down the big perenties (extremely large lizards) on horseback, finding wild honey and a wide variety of bush tucker on the fertile river flats. It is fr