Gracie Pwerle Biography and CV
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DATE OF BIRTH: 1956
REGION: Utopia
LANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre
Gracie Pwerle has been an active Utopia artist since the 80s, participating in early batik workshops and CAAMA’s Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89. Her work is included in international collections as well as the Holmes à Court Collection.
Gracie’s central Dreaming is anwekety or bush plum; her fine dot work representing the sweet dark conkerberry in all its life cycle, throughout which the colour of the berry changes. The plant produces white flowers and berries, which when ripe, are edible and sweet to taste. The berries also feed a variety of wildlife including emus, bush turkey and other native bird species.
Gracie’s paintings, whilst focusing in on flora, simultaneously provide a topographical view of the landscape of her Country, Alhalkere, and always have a distinct sense of movement, moving your eye across the landscape.
COLLECTIONS
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Beher Collection (Germany)
Slaughter and May International Law Collection (London)
EXHIBITIONS
2007 Redrock Gallery, China World Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China2006 Redrock Gallery, South Yarra
2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Aboriginal Art Gallery Baeher, Speyer, Germany
2002 Land is Life Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Germany
2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum, HDZ
2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany
2000 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Mosquito Bore – The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns
1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
1999 Mbantua Gallery and Cultural Museum, Alice Springs
1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French Embassy, Canberra
1999 My Country – Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns
1998 Utopia and Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Gallery Baeher, Speyer, Germany
1998 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
1998 Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti, Florenz, Italy
1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1991 8th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings. The First Works on Canvas, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1989 Tandanya Cultural Institute, Adelaide
1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
