Utopia Art Sydney is proud to have held Emily Kame Kngwarreye's first solo exhibition in1990.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye can most easily be thought of as a landscape painter. The place she painted, Alhalkere, is an area of land that she referred to as her "country". She explained that her pictures incorporate all of the stories and subjects that make her land.
These include Awelye (women's dreaming); Arlatyeye (pencil yam); Arnkerrthe; (mountain devil lizard); Ntange (grass seed); Tingu (a dream time dingo pup); Ankerre (emu); Intekwe (a favourite food of emus, a small plant); Atnwerle (green bean) and Kame (yam seed) from which Kngwarreye gets her name.
This is somewhat different from a western view of the landscape but for Kngwarreye this vision included not only the visual but that which gave her country meaning.
This landscape was the subject for nearly all of Kngwarreye's paintings.

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