About Kathleen Petyarre C.1940 - 2018
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"Kathleen Petyarre is an Australian Aboriginal artist. Her art refers directly to her country and her Dreamings. Petyarre's paintings have occasionally been compared to the works of American Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and even to those of J.M.W. Turner. She has won several awards and is considered one of the 'most collectible artists in Australia'. Her works are in great demand at auctions.However, due to ongoing health problems, she has now all but retired from painting.
 
Most of our Kathleen paintings were painted back in 2006 when she was creating masterpieces, which today are hugely collectible.
 
 Her work has been shown throughout Australia and overseas, including exhibitions in Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United States. She has won a number of awards, including the 1996 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the 1997 Visy Board Art Prize, and the People’s Choice at the 1998 Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is represented in most state collections, as well as numerous public, corporate, and private collections both in Australia and abroad. 
 
Collections include
•    Paintings Collection of H. M. Queen Elizabeth 11 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
•    The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA, Australia
•    The Museum & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N., Australia
•    Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
•    Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
•    The Kluge-Rhue Collection, University of West Virginia, VA, USA
•    The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
•    The Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle, WA, USA
•    A.T.S.I.C. Collection, Adelaide, SA, Australia
•    National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
•    Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
•    University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
•    Riddoch Regional Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, SA, Australia
•    Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia
•    Collection de Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris, France
•    Peabody - Essex Anthropology and Ethnology Museum, Harvard      University, Salem, MASS, USA 
•    The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
•    Museum & Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin, NT, Australia
•    The Robert Holmes a Court Collection, WA, Australia
•    Mem Aziz Collection, Melbourne
•    National Gallery of Victoria, VIC, Australia - Works on Permanent Loan
•    1996 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
•    The Art Gallery of Western Australian, Perth, WA, Australia