Emily kame kngwarreye biography books
Emily kame kngwarreye biography books for sale.
Summary of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of Australia’s most important Indigenous artists (some historians and curators have preferred to refer to her as an “Aboriginal” or “First Nations” artist).
Emily kame kngwarreye biography books
Living her whole life in the remote central desert region of Utopia, Kngwarreye had very little contact with the Western world before her mid-seventies when she emerged as an artist of the highest standing almost overnight.
Her commercial art career lasted just eight years, but in that time, Kngwarreye managed to produce over 3,000 paintings. Both her early batik fabric art, and her more famous canvas paintings, were an extension of the unbreakable cultural connection with her community and ancestral history.
Her paintings were, for many Australians, their first introduction to the power of Indigenous art, while internationally, her work succeeded in bridging the cultural chasm between Western abstract art, and Aboriginal culture and tradition.
Accomplishments
- K