Bio
Margaret Turner Petyarre (Australian Aboriginal 1945-2008) Bio
Margaret (a full blooded Aboriginal of the Alyawarre Tribe located in the Northern Territory of Australia) was born in 1945 at Lake Nash in Utopia a community located 240 kilometres north east of Alice Springs known for its quality art Margaret related to well-known artists Kathleen and Gloria Petyarre Margaret was involved in the Batik project of the 1970s when Western craft practices and traditional Indigenous imagery were combined for the first time Margaret depicted Green Budgerigar Dreaming in the silk Margaret displayed the women performing the ceremony for the Green Budgerigar She used traditional iconography to illustrate the women and the women preparing for the ceremony by body painting The project went on to become a great success touring around Australia Scotland and Eire and was later acquired in full by the Holmes a Court Collection Margaret began to paint on canvas in the early 1990’s under the guidance of respected artists of her family the Petyarre Margaret’s works depicted Awelye or ceremonial body paint and her Dreaming’s of bush medicine and bush tucker particularly bush orange
Margaret’s work features in a number of important collections
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Victoria Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia Canberra
The Holmes a Court Collection
Ebes Collection
