We are delighted to bring to you a wonderful coming together of talent, experience and insight into the artist known simply as, Emily.
 
First, with the current exhibition of Sol LeWitt at the Art Gallery of NSW, which includes artworks by Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Gloria Petyarre, we thought it the perfect time to take you back to the 90's with Frannie Hopkirk as she creates the scene of Emily and other artists at work, with a skill and gentleness which almost allows us to be there. 
 
Next, Jeremy Eccles' review of the Sol LeWitt exhibition brings his unique eye and experience of indigenous art to this major world Conceptual art figure. 
 
And, thanks to the award-winning fine art photographer, Greg Weight, we are also able to show you some images of Emily Kame Kngwarreye that we just love - and include the story behind the images, in Greg's own words.
 
We hope you enjoy it.
 
 
The Aboriginal Art Directory
 
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Installation shot, Sol LeWitt Exhibition, AGNSW

Frannie Hopkirk

Prodigy at Eighty - 
The Miracle of Emily


Utopia, 270km north east of Alice Springs, consists of a series of pastoral outstations, originally owned by the Chalmers family and returned to Aboriginal ownership in 1976. Several family groups live there at bores. In 1994, during Emily's lifetime (Emily died in 1996), it was a group of around 900 souls: painters, batik makers, basket weavers, wood carvers and more continue reading


Jeremy Eccles


Sol and Emily


People have been trying to force Emily Kngwarreye's art into baskets familiar to Western art aficionados for years - Abstract Expressionism being the favourite. And then along comes Sol LeWitt, the inventor of the term 'conceptual art' - which has allowed many a lesser artist to avoid the fact that they can't paint and don't have an aesthetic bone in their body - who, after both their deaths, has gathered continue reading
Emily Kame Kngwarreye My Country
Yam Dreaming, Winter Exposition
Yam Dreaming Linear

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

My Country


121x62cm

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Yam Dreaming, 
Winter Exposition

204x122cm

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Yam Dreaming Linear


134x63cm

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