KWEYETWEMP (KATHLEEN) PETYARRE

Commissioned by Gallerie Australis in 1998
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
Private collection

Arnkerrthe My Dreaming, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, 24 July - 15 August 1998 Porta Oberta al Dreamtime: Art Aborigen Contemporani d'Austràlia (Open Door to Dreamtime: Contemporary Aboriginal Art of Australia), La Fontana D'Or, Girona, Spain, 28 September - 14 November 2004; Centre Cultural Caixa De Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain, 20 November 2004 - 9 January 2005

Porta Oberta al Dreamtime: Art Aborigen Contemporani d'Austràlia (Open Door to Dreamtime: Contemporary Aboriginal Art of Australia), Planella, Gabriel, Fundaciò Caixa de Girona, 2004, p.34, illus.

The painting is in good and stable condition with no signs of restoration or repair with very minor scuffing to the corners.
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This painting is sold with an accompanying Alcaston Gallery certificate, which reads in part: "The centre of this painting represents a sacred Women's Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth). Depicted throughout the painting are seeds (ntang) of the pea, which are an important food for the "traditional healer" (ngangkar), and the Mountain Devil Lizard (Arnkerrth). The elongated X-shape represents two of the artist's Mountain Ancestors Dreaming paths. The painting portrays the area scattered with seeds and the sand-hills created by the swirling sandstorm as it moves across the country."