Northern Territory, Australia

Gloria Petyarre was born in 1945. Her language is Anmatyerre and her country is Aknangkere.

Gloria's main Dreamings* include "Mountain Devil", "Bush Medicine", "Aknangkere Growth", and "Awelye" Dreaming. She paints these with bold linear patterns and splashes of colour. More recently, Gloria has also used intricate dot work in her paintings. Gloria's talent includes an extraordinary eye for colour and her ability to design beautiful works of art makes Gloria one of the best Aboriginal artists.

From 1977 to 1987 Gloria worked in the medium of Batik. Her first solo exhibition was at Australian Galleries in New York in 1991 and she has had many exhibitions since. In 1995, Gloria received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council and in 1999 she won the coveted Wynne Landscape Prize which reaffirms her position as a talented and well known Aboriginal artist.

Gloria Petyarre’s paintings are in the collection of almost every major Art Gallery in each capital city and in numerous private collections in Australia and around the world.