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Exhibition Room
Emily Kame Kngwarreye: 1916-1996
Welcome to Emily Kame Kngwarreye: 1916-1996 online. This is our current Cultural Museum exhibition which opened in April 2007 and will run for approximately 18 months.
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye |
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| Earth’s Creation (above) has been selected for the Emily Kngwarreye Exhibition to be shown in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan during 2008, and then it will finally return to Alice Springs, not far from Emily’s homeland. When it returns it will be placed on permanent public display within Mbantua Gallery and Cultural Museum in Alice Springs. |
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye:
1916-1996 exhibition,
Mbantua Cultural Museum, Alice Springs |
Photograph display in the Exhibition |
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| Women Collecting Bush Yams, an historic piece by Emily; it is one of Emily's earliest known paintings from 1987/88 and featured in the exhibition. |
Close-up: Women Collecting Bush Yams |
“I particularly loved creating this exhibition, comprising of artwork from Mbantua Gallery’s Permanent
Collection, and be able to learn many new things about Emily, one of Australia’s most respected artists. This exhibition also has some great displays of photographs and information; it’s well worth a visit.”
Dale Jennings, Curator
In April 2007, Japanese delegates toured our Gallery and Museum gathering information for their upcoming Emily exhibition with the National Museum of Australia. Earlier that month, we opened our 3rd Cultural Museum exhibition: Emily Kame Kngwarreye: 1916-1996. We invite you to visit our Cultural Museum in Alice Springs to view this exhibition first hand and witness the extraordinary career of Emily and how she affected people all over the world.
Emily passed away in 1996 at the age of around 80 years, leaving a legacy of paintings and a bridge between two very different cultures. Before painting, Emily was involved in batik workshops held at Utopia during the 1980’s which was exhibited in Australia and abroad. In the late 1980’s, Emily began painting with acrylics on canvas. One of her earliest pieces, featured in our exhibition, shows her brief conformism before she freely expressed herself and all that embodied her, taking the art world by storm.
As a senior female custodian for Alhalkere country in the Utopia region, Emily had a responsibility to teach younger women not only hunting and dancing, but also the Dreamtime stories belonging to Alhalkere country. One of her most important stories was that of Atnwelarr, the pencil yam, which is a major subject of her paintings. That being said, Emily famously quoted that she paints ‘whole lot’.
To learn more about Emily, view her artist profile.
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