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Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Aboriginal Australian artist (1910–1996)
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, also spelled Emily Kam Kngwarray, (c. 1910 – 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian (Anmatyerr) artist from Alhalker, in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory. Kngwarreye's unique style and powerful creative vision came to redefine contemporary Aboriginal art and gained worldwide attention. One of the world's most significant contemporary painters to emerge in the twentieth century, Kngwarreye practised in batik and painting on canvas, creating art that embodied her detailed knowledge of the places she lived in throughout her life. She layered motifs representing the plants, animals and geological features that formed the desert ecosystems around her. Beginning in batik in 1977 and moving to painting on canvas in 1988, she also occasionally worked on paper. In the early 1990s Kngwarreye made some prints, including etchings and linocuts. Creating an expansive catalogue of works in her life, Kngwarreye was at the forefront of the Aboriginal artistic revolution in...
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