{"product_id":"gloria-tamerre-petyarre-bush-medicine-leaves-25","title":"GLORIA TAMERRE PETYARRE - Bush Medicine Leaves","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGLORIA TAMERRE PETYARRE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTITLE: BUSH MEDICINE LEAVES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACRYLIC ON CANVAS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e110CM x 123CM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGLORIA HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING AND A PHOTO WILL BE PROVIDED.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREF#GP515\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBorn: c.1945-2021, Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnown as: Gloria Petyarre, Gloria Pitjara, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDreamings: Leaves, Bush Medicine Leaves, Grass Seeds, Pencil Yam, Awelye (women's ceremony and body paint designs), Arnkerrthe (Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard) and Aknangkere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGloria Petyarre was one of the most important artists to come out of Utopia, the Anmatyerre and Alyawarr homelands about 270km north-east of Alice Springs. She was born there around 1945, spoke Anmatyerre, and her Country is Aknangkere.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe was one of the seven Petyarre sisters, alongside Ada Bird, Jean, Kathleen, Myrtle, Nancy and Violet, in a family that has produced some of the most collected work in Aboriginal art. Gloria started out in the Utopia women's batik group in the late 1970s and moved to painting on canvas in 1988, her early work growing out of Awelye, the women's ceremonial body paint.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe is best known for her Bush Medicine Leaves paintings, where the leaves drift and swirl across the canvas as though caught in the wind. In 1999 she won the Wynne Prize for landscape at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for one of these works, the first Aboriginal artist to take out that award. She passed away in June 2021.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Medicine Leaves (also called Leaves) \u003c\/span\u003e— The work Gloria is famous for. The medicine leaves come from a range of native plants gathered across Utopia and prepared different ways, boiled and drunk, made into a poultice or balm, or smoked. Gloria painted them mid-fall, in thousands of small strokes that drift across the canvas as if caught in the wind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye (women's ceremony and body paint)\u003c\/span\u003e — The designs women wear across the chest and shoulders for ceremony, and Gloria's earliest subject. The lines swirl and radiate the way the paint sits on the skin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eArnkerrthe (Mountain or Thorny Devil Lizard)\u003c\/span\u003e — A small spiny desert lizard and one of Gloria's most important ancestral stories. It travelled across her Country creating the sites and songs, and her swirling design stands for the thorny skin on its back.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAknangkere \u003c\/span\u003e— Gloria's own Country. Her later Aknangkere Growth series uses lines of colour running across the canvas to show the plant life \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eregenerating after fire and rain.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eGrass Seeds \u003c\/span\u003e— Native grass seed, a traditional bush food gathered and ground by the women, which Gloria painted in works like Sacred Grass in a strong linear pattern.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003ePencil Yam \u003c\/span\u003e— A bush food with an edible root dug from the ground, one of the bush-food Dreamings shared across the Petyarre family and the wider Utopia group.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAWARDS AND COMMISSIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1999 Winner, Wynne Prize for landscape, Art Gallery of New South Wales, the first Aboriginal artist to win it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2004 Highly Commended, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist in the Wynne Prize in later years, and in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2009 Commissioned by Hermès, the first Australian artist the house had worked with, her Leaves design produced as a silk scarf titled Le Rêve de Gloria\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1993 Designed a pair of tapestries woven by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, now the Australian Tapestry Workshop\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1992 to 1993 Created a forty foot mural with her husband Ronnie Price Mpetyane at the entrance to the Australian exhibit at the Kansas City Zoo, which won an American Institute of Architects award in 1994\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGloria exhibited across Australia and internationally, and her work is held in major public collections around the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1990 to 1991 Utopia: A Picture Story, touring Ireland, London and India as well as Adelaide and Melbourne, with Gloria travelling as a representative of the Utopia women.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, touring\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUtopia Body Paint: Art from Australia's Central Desert, touring twelve venues across North America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibited at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Gallery of Australia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt Gallery of New South Wales (seven 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