Nancy Kunoth Petyarre

A15385 

Size: 140 x 140cm
Acrylic on Linen

Nancy Kunoth Petyarre was born at Soakage Bore near Utopia in Central Australia circa. She is the sister of the well known artists Gloria Petyarre, Kathleen Petyarre, Ada Bird, Violet Petyarre and Myrtle Petyarre.

Like many of the female artists from the Utopia area, Nancy worked in batik and gradually evolved her art to canvas in the late 1980’s. Nancy is noted for her linear style of painting depicting Mountain Devil Lizard (Arnkerrthe) Dreaming with flowing strokes and bright colours. Often surrounding these broad areas of colour are small dots creating the effect of the lizards skin that is the basis of this Dreaming.
Nancy also uses small dots in her paintings. These dots form an intricate display of patterns that display Nancy's love of her country.

Her dreamings include Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, Body Painting and Grass Seed, these are stories that come from her family and her country.

Sadly Nancy passed in 2009.