EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE

Commissioned by the Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory 
Private collection, Sydney

There is minor scuffing to the canvas stretcher corners, otherwise the painting is in very good condition consistenet with age and use.
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Cf. Awelye, 1989, and Untitled, 1989, in Neale, M (ed)., Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Paintings from Utopia, Queensland Art Gallery and MacMillan, Brisbane, 1998, illus. p.76, plate 44, catalogue number 19, and p.77, plate 45, catalogue number 20, respectively

An early painting by the artist where she is establishing the repertoire of painting techniques. Here she is experimenting with the effect created by dotting over a ground depicting a repeated image of Anoranngait, the healing plant, below which are the tracks of the ancestral emu. In some cases the artist has placed dots within dots, a technique found in her earliest works and in the batiks she produced prior to her working on canvas.