Congratulations to ELIZABETH KUNOTH KNGWARRAY
Finalist in this year’s Wynne Prize for Landscape painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting 2025 Art Gallery of New South Wales Entries: 758 (52 selected) Showing : 10 May – 17 August 2025
Elizabeth’s paintings are also showing at the AAADA Fair this weekend at the Malvern Town Hall. Click here for further information or contact us for complimentary entry tickets.
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray depicts aspects of Aharlper in Utopia in the Northern Territory in this painting. The work was created at her home at Iylenty, some 360 kilometres north-east of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. As a cultural custodian, Kngwarray is concerned with transmitting stories and ceremony through her artworks, preserving and continuing her community’s rich cultural practices.
To complete this work, Kngwarray, a three-time Wynne finalist, laid her canvas flat on the ground, applying paint with bottles of varying nib sizes to produce intricate flicks of colour. These ‘flicks’ reference the yam, a native food plant and medicinal source. The yam’s low, sprawling form is evoked through the electrifying reds and blues Kngwarray has applied in varying intensities to create dynamic pools of colour that spread across the canvas. Interspersed among these bold hues are tiny flecks of white, yellow and teal. They shimmer and glint, similar to how the yam’s seeds and flowers gently move when a breeze brushes past the plant.
Click here to view Elizabeth’s work in our stockroom or please contact us for further information.