Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Bush Yam Dreaming
1994
synthetic
polymer, paint on canvas
138 x 263,5
cm
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Earth’s Creation
1994
synthetic
polymer, paint on canvas
Emily Kame Kngwarreye at work
Whenever Emily was asked to explain her
paintings, regardless of whether the images were a shimmering veil of dots, a
field of ‘dump dump’ dots, raw stripes seared across the surface or elegant
black lines, her answer was always the same:
Whole lot, that’s whole lot, Awelye (my
Dreaming), Arlatyeye (pencil yam), Arkerrthe (mountain devil lizard), Ntange
(grass seed), Tingu (Dreamtime pup), Ankerre (emu), Intekwe (favourite food of
emus, a small plant), Atnwerle (green bean), and Kame (yam seed). That’s what I
paint, whole lot.
In the last eight to nine years of her
life Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996) produced over 3000 paintings, an average of about one
painting per day. Before that she did batik, but
washing out batikwax became too heavy, so she just started painting.
She now belongs to the absolute top of
contemporary Australian art.
(source:
National Museum of Australia)
'It is the scrub, its informality, bush
tracks, stumps, fences, the litter of bark and leaves and its transformation by
flood and fire, that had attracted Theo Kuijpers to the Australian
landscape. It's not unusual for an Australian artist to respond to such
elements in landscape, but it is rare for an artist from Holland.
The Australian environment is certainly very different to that in and around
Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where Theo Kuijpers lives all his life and where
he has a studio. Nevertheless, as the son of a farmer, it is landscape and
farming detritus that often strikes the deepest chord in him.
Characteristic of this art is the
landscape-like materiality, the incorporation off all manner of discarded
materials in past of paint-denim trousers, embroidered tablecloths, twigs, rope
or string. Tarpaulins and old sails are also favourite materials.'
(from a small
catalogue by Hendrik Kolenberg, former curator of Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney, accompanying an exhibition in Kingstreet Gallery on
William, Sydney)
Theo Kuijpers
Song after Bushfire
2011
80 x 100
cm
oil, collage
on canvas
(photo Peter
Cox)
Theo Kuijpers (NL)
Night Song
2012
200 x 160 cm
acrylic, oil,
collage on canvas
(photo Peter
Cox)
