Kudditji kngwarreye wiki

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 from this friendship that a strong bond of mutual respect would later grow between Don Holt (Jessie Holt’s son) and Emily Kngwarreye, before and during her brilliant career as a contemporary artist.

Emily commenced painting on fabric in the batik technique in 1977. Initially instructed by Yipati, a Pitjantjatjara artist from Ernabella and Suzie Bryce, a craft instructor. Later Jenny Green taught her to drive a car and sign her name at Utopia. Jenny Green and Julia Murray became enthusiastic teachers and soon had approximately eighty people, including several men, producing wild and free-flowing coloured silk and cotton batiks.

At the time, the market for batik was very small, and Jenny and J

Australian Aboriginal artist (1938 – 2017)

Kudditji Kngwarreye, also known as "Goob", (1938 – 23 January 2017) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. He was the brother through kinship of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Like his skin sister Emily, he was one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of contemporary indigenous Australian art.

Life

Kngwarreye was born and lived in the Anmatyerre language group at Alhalkere in the Utopia community, located 250 kilometres (160 mi) north-east of Alice Springs. Kngwarreye had a traditional bush upbringing and worked as a stockman and mine worker. He was also a traditional custodian of many important Dreamings of the land, and men's business ceremonial sites located in his country at Utopia Station.

Kngwarreye witnessed the success of Albert Namatjira, and experienced the 1967 referendum. Kngwarreye and his countrymen had their land claim approved in 1979 and throughout the years he felt the effects of different government policies on Indigenous people of the Northern Territory. Kngwarreye started painting around 1986 and continued painting until 2015. He participated in many international exhibitions and became known for depictions of his Dreamings; their abstract imagery, bold colour use, and intuitive interplay with space and form has cemented his name in the Aboriginal art scene.

Over the years his Dreamings have profoundly evolved into extraordinary juxtaposed colour fields, startling in both composition and hue. Harsh or soft and often surprising to the Western eye, his painterly style maps out the creation, his country, and his traditional Dreamings. While his spatial, painterly compositions have a Rothko-esque quality to them, the work of this Anmatyerre elder from the Northern Territory is clearly a unique Australian voice.^{[citation needed]}

Date of Birth

1938 – 2017

Place of Birth

Lallguora, Utopia, NT

Language

Anmatyerre

Community

Utopia, NT

Who is Kudditji Kngwarreye?

Kudditji Kngwarreye (pronounced goo-beh-chee) is a senior man from the Eastern Anmatyerre country of Alhalkere on the Utopia homelands in the Northern Territory. He was born around 1928, the younger brother of famous Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye. He has painted for over twenty five years.

What country does Kudditji Kngwarreye paint?

Kudditji Kngwarreye paintings represent his traditional country around Boundary Bore, the country for which he is a custodian. Boundary Bore is located just off the Ooratippra Creek in the southeast of the Northern Territory, a distance of about 1200km south-southeast from Darwin.

What are the traditional stories and themes of Kudditji Kngwarreye’s paintings?

Significant throughout this country are the Emu Dreaming sites, where major men’s initiation ceremonies are performed. Emu Dreaming is one of Kudditji’s inherited ancestral totems, and is the inspiration for his art. Visual references to Emu Dreaming, and Men’s Ceremonial Dreamings from Boundary Bore, are always at the heart of artworks from Kudditji Kngwarreye. The artist is represented in major national and international collections and Kudditji has gained worldwide recognition for his powerful interpretations of his ancestral Dreamings.

What is Kudditji Kngwarreye’s painting style?

Using his depth of knowledge of Country, Kudditji began to experiment with acrylic paint to move beyond the traditional pointillist style that he had used before 2003. Taking a heavily laden paint brush and sweeping broadly across the canvas in stages, he began to evoke lyrical images of Country, accentuating the colour and form of the landscape, the depth of the sky in the rainy season and the reds and oranges of the shimmering summer heat. These ground-breaking paintings express Kudditji’s