Kathleen Petyarre began painting at Utopia in 1989 and by 1995 she had achieved a significant stylistic breakthrough. Her austere yet atmospheric compositions were characterized by fields of extraordinarily tiny dots, highly restricted ochre based color palates, and minimal patterning evocative of the landscape of her traditional country and the wind and dust storms that occur there.

 

  

 

Kathleen Petyarre amongst the sandhills of Atnangkere, 2000

    
           
     

By 1996 Kathleen had won the National Aboriginal Art Award for her "new style" work and her career began to gather momentum. In 1998 she won the Seppelt's Contemporary Art Award, which led to her 2001 retrospective Genius of Place: The Work of Kathleen Petyarre, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the first major survey of her work featuring over 40 paintings, batiks and works on paper. Her career had begun to rival that of her Auntie: Emily Kngwarreye.
   
   		 
 
10. (TVU 26)
My Country,
(Sandhills and Claypans)
Kathleen Petyarre
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 60 inches
152 x 152 cms
1999
 
11. (TVU 69)
Sandhills of Atnangkere
(Hailstorm)
Kathleen Petyarrre
Acrylic on Canvas
72 x 72 inches
182 x 182 cms
1999
 

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