Yam Seeds and Flowers (215232)

Details

Artist

Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray

Title

Yam Seeds and Flowers (215232)

Year

2015

Medium

synthetic polymer on linen

Size

200 x 120 cm

Details

Region: North Eastern Central Australia N.T. Residence: Iylenty, Utopia
Country: Atnangkere
Language: Anmatyerr

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Stock Number

215232

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Exhibited

Highly Commended, 39th Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT, 2016

Literature

Kieran Finnane, Alice Prize winning work speaks of country, art history, Alice Spring News, 18 April 2016

Further Information

Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray is the daughter of Nancy Petyarr, one of the celebrated Petyarr sisters widely recognised as important painters of the Utopia region. Elizabeth lives at Iylenty (Mosquito Bore) with her husband Cowboy Loy Pwerl who is also a painter.  She has only been painting since 2005 and has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize for Landscape at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2008 and 2010.

Elizabeth paints the leaf, seed and flower of the Bush Yam, a tuber plant, in a series of tiny coloured flicks that undulate across the canvas.  In her paintings, she shows the wind whispering through the yam plant, producing a beautiful and captivating sense of movement.