She has represented several stories from Aboriginal Dreamtime mythology, referring to origin story in … Starting her career with batik painting on silk, Petyarre turned to working on canvas because of its greater capacity for experimentation with line and color. The story is an important one for Anmatyerre and Alyawarr people of Utopia homelands in Central Australia. Add To Enquiry Cart How To buy. Aboriginal Australian artist Gloria Petyarre is best known for her paintings of undulating abstract fields of lines, which variously reference leaves, grass, and traditional bodypaint. The leaves of the important Kurrajong, or Kurrawong tree features in these iconic paintings which first stormed into the world’s attention when Gloria Petyarre won the coveted Australian ‘Wynne Prize’ for landscape in 1999. Petyarre is both a member of the Utopia Women Batik’s Group and the niece of Australia’s most acclaimed indigenous artist, Emily Kngwarreye. Gloria Petyarre is noted as one of the most famous of Aboriginal artists from the Utopia Homelands. Jap 013937 | acrylic on linen | 142 x 60 cm. The theme of Bush Medicine Leaves was developed in paintings by Gloria Petyarre (born 1945) and became a powerful part of her painting imagery during the last 20 years of her career. She has represented several stories from Aboriginal Dreamtime mythology, referring to origin story in which totemic spirits created the aboriginal world. The work in question was a large green and gold medicine leaf painting … In April 1994 at Mosquito Bore in Utopia, Gloria began doing something new on her canvas. Gloria Petyarre | Bush Medicine Leaves. This work includes a certificate of authenticity. Aboriginal Australian artist Gloria Petyarre is best known for her paintings of undulating abstract fields of lines, which variously reference leaves, grass, and traditional bodypaint. 21 of 21. By far the most well known of all Gloria’s paintings is Leaves. In her well-known “Leaves” works, she used a collection of rhythmically moving earth toned lines to representing the movement of leaves in the wind. Aboriginal Australian artist Gloria Petyarre is best known for her paintings of undulating abstract fields of lines, which variously reference leaves, grass, and traditional bodypaint. She has represented several stories from Aboriginal Dreamtime mythology, referring to origin story in …