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Gloria Tamerre Pitjara (Gloria Petyarre) embarked on her career some twenty five years ago and is a Utopia based Aboriginal artist. Like all the women artists at Utopia, she began by making batik works. In 1984 she switched from painting batik designs on silk to painting with acrylics on canvas. Utopia is some 300kms north-east of Alice Springs. The painting style from this area is commonly described as 'central desert' painting and is one of the most famous Aboriginal painting groups in the world.
In 1995-96, she received a Full Fellowship Grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of The Australia Council and won Australia’s most prestigious landscape art award, the ‘Wynne Painting Prize’, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1999. She has been nominated for the prestigious award 5 times. Her work has featured many times in the most important Aboriginal art prize in the country, the ‘Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Straight Art Award’ in Darwin.
Gloria's work is represented in National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Victoria, Gallery of South Australia, Gallery of Queensland, Art Gallery of NSW, Flinders University, Griffith University Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Federal Court Collection, Supreme Court, Brisbane, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Westpac Gallery, New York, USA, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, USA, Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Parliament House, Canberra, Wollongong University Collection, Artbank, Macquarie Bank, Singapore Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA, Kansas City Zoo, USA, British Museum, London, Gallery Rai,Tokyo, Japan, Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand, Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria, and all major public and corporate collections throughout Australia and all over the world. More info