{"product_id":"janet-golder-kngwarreye-awelye-womens-ceremony","title":"JANET GOLDER KNGWARREYE - Awelye (Women's Ceremony)","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJANET GOLDER KNGWARREYE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: AWELEY (WOMEN'S CEREMONY)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eACRYLIC ON CANVAS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e88CM X 149CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJANET HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING AND A PHOTO WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#JG213\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBorn: 1973, Utopia, Northern Territory\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003cbr\u003eKnown as: Janet Golder, Janet Golder Ngwarai\u003cbr\u003eDreamings: Awelye (Women's Ceremonial Body Paint), Yam Flower, Bush Tucker, My Country\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eJanet Golder Kngwarreye was born in 1973 at Utopia in the Northern Territory into one of the most celebrated artistic families in Central Australia. Her parents, Margaret Golder and Sammy Pitjara, are both established artists. Her grandmothers are the renowned Utopia painters Polly Ngale and Angelina Pwerle. Emily Kame Kngwarreye — widely regarded as the most significant Aboriginal painter of the twentieth century — is Janet's grandmother through the Anmatyerre kinship system. In Anmatyerre culture the skin name Kngwarreye defines a relationship that carries the full weight of family: shared Country, shared Dreaming and shared law. Janet is married to Ronnie Bird, son of the acclaimed Ada Bird Pitjara (Petyarre), the eldest of the seven Petyarre sisters of Utopia. Her sister Belinda Golder Kngwarreye is also an accomplished painter. Art runs through every branch of her family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eJanet grew up watching the women of her family paint, absorbing not only the technique but the deeper knowledge of Country and women's ceremony that each painting carries. The Dreamings she paints were passed to her through this direct line of family and Country — the Awelye body paint designs of the Anmatyerre women, the Yam Flower, the Bush Tucker of her homeland, and the aerial compositions of land and women's story that she calls My Country. Each subject comes from the same deep well of Anmatyerre knowledge and law.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eHer painting practice began with Awelye and Bush Tucker, and in recent years her primary focus has shifted to My Country compositions that map the Utopian landscape from above, weaving together the features of Country, women's cultural practice and bush tucker into canvases of extraordinary energy and colour. Janet paints with a sophisticated command of colour and a technical confidence that has made her one of the most sought-after artists working in Utopia today. Her works have been exhibited in galleries across Australia and internationally.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e — The ceremonial body paint designs of the Anmatyerre women of Utopia. In ceremony, Awelye marks are applied to women's bodies — lines and patterns that carry knowledge of Country, kinship and law passed from woman to woman across generations. When Janet paints Awelye she is not decorating a surface. She is recording something that belongs to her by birthright, learned directly from the women of her family and her Country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eYam Flower\u003c\/span\u003e — The yam (Ipomoea costata) pushes up through the red Utopian soil after rain, its vine trailing across Country and its flower opening in a burst of colour. The plant holds deep significance in the women's ceremony and knowledge of the region. Janet's Yam Flower paintings build the form of the flower outward across the canvas in dense, layered mark-making — rings and arcs of fine dots that move and shift as the eye travels across them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Tucker\u003c\/span\u003e — The foods of Utopian Country: the plants, seeds, fruits and animals that the women have gathered, prepared and shared knowledge of for thousands of years. In Janet's hands Bush Tucker is not a still life. It is a map — Country as the women who walk it and sing it have always known it, seen from above and alive with meaning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eMy Country\u003c\/span\u003e — Janet's primary subject in recent years and the fullest expression of her vision. These paintings take the aerial perspective that runs deep through Central Desert art, Country seen from above the way it is held in memory and in law. Women's ceremony, Awelye body paint designs, bush tucker and the features of the Utopian landscape all come together in one surface. No single element dominates. Everything belongs to everything else. My Country is both map and story, and it is in these paintings that Janet's singular command of colour and composition is most fully on display.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND RECOGNITION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eJanet Golder Kngwarreye has exhibited nationally and internationally throughout her career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e2022 Connection — Songlines from Australia's First Peoples, National Museum of Australia, Canberra\u003cbr\u003e2022 Synergy 2022 — First Nations Artists from around Australia, Everywhen Art, Shoreham VIC\u003cbr\u003e2021 Synergy — Art from the Heartlands of Aboriginal Australia, Everywhen Art, Shoreham VIC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eRECOGNITION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e2022 Work featured in the immersive experience Connection — Songlines from Australia's First Peoples, National Museum of Australia, Canberra\u003cbr\u003e2019 Commissioned by Coles Group to paint a large My Country canvas, reproduced as two screen prints now displayed on the front glass facade of the Coles store, Alice Springs\u003cbr\u003e2014 Painted a Smeg FAB28 refrigerator presented at the National Architecture Awards, Darwin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note, the painting was folded over at the top and has slight crease mark. (See photos attached) When stretched the crease will be barely visible.\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\u003eThis painting was purchased directly from Janet and a gallery certificate of authenticity will be provided with the sale.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JANET GOLDER KNGWARREYE","offers":[{"title":"8CM X 149CM","offer_id":41580431835181,"sku":"JG213","price":2850.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/9130\/6797\/products\/JG213-2.jpg?v=1663989952","url":"https:\/\/altyerre.com.au\/products\/janet-golder-kngwarreye-awelye-womens-ceremony","provider":"Altyerre Aboriginal Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}