{"product_id":"margaret-turner-petyarre-bush-medicine-leaves-4","title":"MARGARET TURNER PETYARRE - Bush Medicine Leaves","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARGARET TURNER PETYARRE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: BUSH MEDICINE LEAVES\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\u003e89CM x 69CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARGARET HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING A PHOTO WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#MT12\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBorn: c.1945-2008, Lake Nash (Alpurrurulam), Northern Territory\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre and Alyawarre\u003cbr\u003eKnown as: Margaret Turner, Margaret Price Petyarre, Margaret Turner Price\u003cbr\u003eDreamings: Awelye (Women's Ceremony and Body Paint), Bush Orange, Bush Medicine, Bush Tucker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eMargaret Turner Petyarre was born around 1945 at Lake Nash, now known as Alpurrurulam, an Alyawarre community on the Northern Territory side of the Queensland border. She spent most of her life on the Utopia homelands north east of Alice Springs, living around Arlparra, and was part of the wider Petyarre family, whose women include some of the best known painters to come out of Utopia. Margaret passed away on 28 July 2008. Her daughter Marcia (Marcie) Turner Petyarre is also a respected artist and continues to paint the stories her mother passed on to her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eLike many Utopia women, Margaret started out in batik, drawing her designs in hot wax onto lengths of silk before dyeing them. She was one of the 88 artists whose silks make up Utopia: A Picture Story, a body of work completed in 1988 and bought in full by the Robert Holmes à Court Collection, which later toured to Scotland and Ireland. In the early 1990s she moved to acrylic on canvas, with support and guidance from senior painters in her Petyarre family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eMargaret painted with fine, careful dotting and long flowing lines. The curving bands in her awelye paintings come from the ceremonial designs painted across women's chests and shoulders, and her years in batik show in the way she handled those looping lines. Her bush food paintings are built up from dense fields of small dots. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAwelye (Women's Ceremony and Body Paint)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e – Awelye is the women's ceremony of the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre. The women paint designs onto their chests and shoulders with ochre, then sing and dance for their country, for the plants and animals that sustain them, and for the health of the community. The lines in Margaret's paintings follow these body paint designs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBush Orange (Atwakeye)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e – The bush orange (Capparis mitchellii) is a small, hardy desert tree with dark leathery leaves, creamy white flowers that open at night, and round fruit with a sweet edible pulp. It was one of Margaret's own plant Dreamings and one of the subjects she returned to most often.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBush Medicine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e – Women gather leaves from many different native plants across their country and prepare them in different ways depending on the ailment: boiled and drunk, crushed into a poultice, worked into a balm, or smoked. The knowledge of which plants to use and how to prepare them is passed down from grandmothers and mothers to daughters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBush Tucker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e – The foods women gather on country, including bush yam, yam seed and bush melon as well as the bush orange. Painting these foods keeps alive the knowledge of where they grow and when they are ready to harvest, handed down through generations of women.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003cbr\u003eMargaret exhibited in Australia and overseas, and her work was included in two landmark collections of Utopia and desert art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003cbr\u003e1990 Utopia: A Picture Story, 88 silk batiks from the Robert Holmes à Court Collection, touring Scotland and Ireland\u003cbr\u003e1996 Nangara, the Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection, Stichting Sint-Jan, Bruges, Belgium\u003cbr\u003e2007 Group exhibition, China World Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China\u003cbr\u003e2007 Group exhibition, International Art Expo, Beijing, China\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003cbr\u003eRobert Holmes à Court Collection, Perth\u003cbr\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003cbr\u003eMuseums Victoria, Melbourne\u003cbr\u003eEbes Collection, Melbourne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIn keeping with cultural protocol, we do not publish photographs of artists who have passed away. Margaret's name is used here so her work can be properly identified, out of respect for the old ways.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MARGARET TURNER PETYARRE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34979349069869,"sku":"MT12","price":895.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/9130\/6797\/products\/MARGARETTURNERREF_MT12.jpg?v=1607312006","url":"https:\/\/altyerre.com.au\/products\/margaret-turner-petyarre-bush-medicine-leaves-4","provider":"Altyerre Aboriginal Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}