Rosemary petyarre biography
Rosemary Petyarre Biography ..
Rosemary Pitjara b.Rosemary Petyarre was born in at Utopia, north east of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Rosemary Bird Petyarre was born in the early s at Atneltye, or Boundary Bore, on Utopia Station in the Northern Territory, located kms north east of. Rosemary Petyarre Biography . Rosemary Pitjara (Petyarre) was born in at Atneltyey (Boundary Bore) in the expansive Utopia homelands region of Central Australia. Rosemary was one of a group of Anmatyerre women at the forefront of the Aboriginal art movement in the Utopia region.
LANGUAGE: ANMATYERRE
REGION: Atneltyey, UTOPIA, N.T.
Rosemary Pitjara (Petyarre) was born in at Atneltyey (Boundary Bore) in the expansive Utopia homelands region of Central Australia, north-east of Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
Rosemary is niece to the acclaimed artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (dec.). Rosemary hails from both a region and family group of great artistic significance; a member of the famous Petyarre artist family; her cousin is the celebrated Gloria Petyarre (dec.) Many members of the Petyarre family are highly acclaimed painters in the Aboriginal art world.
Rosemary predominantly paints a bush medicine leaf design, popularised by her cousin Gloria.
All aspects of bush medicine - the plants, the paths taken by women to collect it, and the process of preparing it - hold great cultural and spiritual significance to Aboriginal people. Rosemary depicts the way that the women would source and collect certain types of leaves.
