Margaret turner artist biography
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Turner is a professional artist, working for over 35 years across many media as well as teaching in Australia and overseas and she has a CV to match, which includes an extensive exhibition profile in public and institutional galleries, significant art prizes and she is represented in private collections.
In 2013-14 Turner’s work was short-listed in five national art awards, she won the 2013 Kenilworth Painting Prize and had major solo exhibitions of her work at the Art Gallery of the University of the Sunshine Coast, and the J at Noosa. She also coordinated and participated in two regional gallery instantiations of True Stories from the Studio, an exhibition of work by art lecturers from the Sunshine Coast TAFE as well as participating in other group shows and art competition finals.
She works full time in her studio.
Feature artist: Muses Trio / Dreaming Big Series at Eudlo Hall, in association with Rosebed St Gallery. Guest speaker at Muses Trio “Reclaiming the Spirit” performance Sat Mar 12, 2016 at Caloundra Regional Art Gallery.
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Margaret Turner Petyarre
- Skin Name:Petyarre
- Language:Anmatyerre
- Region:Utopia, Central Australia
- Dreaming: Awelye, Green Budgerigar & Bush Medicine Dreaming
Artist has Passed Away
1945 - 2008
Out of respect for Aboriginal culture Central Art has removed the artist's photograph.
Biography
Margaret Turner Petyarre was born in 1945 and comes from the Utopia region in Central Australia. Sadly Margaret passed away on the 28th of July 2008. Margaret was an Anmatyerre woman and spent the majority of her life living in her traditional lands around Utopia.
Margaret first became involved in modern art depiction like many other women from Utopia in the late 1970’s. A community project was created whereby the women of Utopia were introduced to silk batik making. The women would depict bush scenes and their Dreamings on the silk batiks. Margaret depicted Green Budgerigar Dreaming; in the silk Margaret displayed the women performing the ceremony for the Green Budgerigar. She used traditional iconography to illustrate the women, and the women preparing for the ceremony by body painting. The project went on to become a great success, touring around Australia, Scotland and Eire and was later acquired in full by the Holmes a Court Collection.
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