Gloria Tamerre Petyarre (c1942-2021)

Gloria Tamerre Petyarre was born around 1942 at Mosquito Bore, Utopia in the Northern Territory. Since her first solo exhibition in 1991, she has been regarded as a leading artist in the Utopia community. Her works have been widely exhibited in Australia, across Europe, North America and Asia. Like Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria first came to prominence as a batik painter in the late 1970s, before painting on canvas in the late 1980s. The use of sophisticated batik-making techniques combined with the early body-mark references of women's ceremonies, appear to have shaped the unique forms of Utopia's painting style in the 1980s. Gloria, one of four sisters renowned for their painting practice, is considered to have taken various forms based on ceremonial markings and her traditional stories into an abstracted style more consistently than many of her contemporaries.

In her paintings throughout the 1990s, where she progressed in size and precision, Gloria created some of the most significant recent artworks. A multi-award winning artist and highly collectible by the time she passed away in Alice Springs in 2021.

Collections

Musee du quai Branly, Paris
Musée des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Donald Holt Collection, Australia
Janet Holt Collection, Australia
Allen, Allen & Hemsley
Artbank, Sydney
Baker-McKenzie Collection
British Museum, London, UK
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW
Flinders University, Adelaide
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, Qld
Griffith University Collection, Qld
James D Wolfensohn Collection
Levi Collection, Seattle, Canada
Holmes à Court Collection, Australia
Queenland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld
Macquarie Group Collection
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney