Ilyarnayt

$2,700.00

Ilyarnayt. It’s growing everywhere in Ngarwenyerra. My country. On those sandhills back there. Pretty flowers, yellow ones. Tyape likes them too. He living in there, inside those roots. We dig them up. Tyape kere mwerr-angker.

Audrey Morton Kngwarreye is the daughter of Mary Kemarre and Billy Stockman Pitjara Morton. Audrey and all of her three sisters; Lucky, Sarah and Ruby Morton are artists. Audrey and her family come from the Utopia region in Central Australia. Utopia is renowned for its development of famous Aboriginal artists and Audrey has been involved in many of the programs that have assisted in developing these artists. Like so many other women from this generation Audrey started experimenting with art in the CAAMA Batik Project in the 1970’s and the ‘Summer Project’ in the 1980’s when Audrey began to use canvas and acrylic paints. Her batik works have been exhibited around Australia and her canvases throughout Australia and America.

Audrey paints a variety of subject matter including tharrkarr (honey grevillea), alpeyt (acacia flowers) and awelye, women’s ceremonial body paint design. These are unique to the Antarrengeny region, which is Audrey’s mother’s country. Audrey depicts stories from the Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr countries to which she belongs.