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photo by Roy Ryan (copyright). Kudditji Kngawarreye We have about 25 Kudditji paintings dating back to 1991, for your pleasure
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Born around 1928, Kudditji Kngwarreye, the younger brother of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, had a traditional bush upbringing in the Utopia region before starting a long career as a stockman and mine worker. An Anmatyerre elder and custodian of many important Dreamings, Kudditji was inspired by the work coming out of Papunya to paint his own Dreamings, telling of the travels and law of the Emu ancestors. Starting in 1986, his precisely dotted Emu Dreaming paintings, featuring ranks of coloured roundels and other 'hieroglyphs' on a chequered or dotted background, became sought after by major galleries in the Northern Territory. Breaking out of this style after some years, Kudditji's work became far looser and more 'abstract', and some commentators have seen a strong similarity with his sister Emily's work - but it is not clear who was the first to set out on this path. The demand for his earlier, detailed style, however, moved Kudditji to return to it, and it was only in 2002 that he began to exhibit the saturated colour paintings that have seen his reputation grow nationally and internationally.
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| My country | |
| acrylic on linen 2100*615 mm | |
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Brilliant interpretation of the changing colours of his ancestral desert homeland.
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A$poa outbackart@idl.net.au
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| Emu 805 | |
| Linen 1010*800mm aprox | |
| circa 1996 | |
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This is the artists "emu dreaming" with the concentric circles; representing the many and various "emu dreaming" sites in the artist's home country some 280 klms from alice springs. During ceremony men sit listening to the elders singing the ancient emu dreaming
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| Kuditji Kngwarreye | |
| acrylic on linen 1100*1100 mm | |
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Brilliant interpretation of the changing colours of his ancestral desert homeland.
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| Kudditji Kngwarreye | |
| Emu linen 1200*920 mm | |
| circa 1997 | |
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This is the artists "emu dreaming" with the concentric circles; representing the many and various "emu dreaming" sites in the artist's home country some 280 klms from alice springs. During ceremony men sit listening to the elders singing the ancient emu dreaming
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A$poa outbackart@idl.net.au
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| Linen 1400*650 mm approx | |
| circa 1997 | |
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This is the artists "emu dreaming" with the concentric circles; representing the many and various "emu dreaming" sites in the artist's home country some 280 klms from alice springs. During ceremony men sit listening to the elders singing the ancient emu dreaming
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sorry sold outbackart@idl.net.au
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| my country | |
| Linen 910*610 mm | |
| circa 1999 | |
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outbackart@idl.net.au
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| my country | |
| Linen 1210*910 mm | |
| circa 2007 | |
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"My Country that whole lot"
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| my country | |
| Linen 1210*1210 mm | |
| circa 2010 | |
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just a great painting reminesent and inspired by the big storms over the desert recently
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