The Ancestral Legacy of Kngwarreye

The Anmatyerr are an Australian Aboriginal people from the Northern Territory. Like the artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye who was born in the Utopia community. After only starting to paint in her seventies, Kngwarreye became one of the most important and successful artists in the history of Australian Aboriginal art and one of the most important painters in the world to emerge in the late twentieth century. For the next eight years until her death, Kngwarreye painted over 3.000 canvases, about one a day, creating a timeless art that encapsulates the wisdom, experience and authority she acquired throughout her life. Her artistic practice was nourished by her lived experience and her spiritual connection to the land of her birth, giving life to works in vibrant batik fabrics and later in monumental paintings on canvas. Works alive and true, which invite the audience to dream with eyes wide open.