Gracie Morton Pwerle (1956) - Bush Plum White Seed

A very beautiful work with a lovely rendering of colors.

An authenticity certificate (COA) provided by Darren Zint will be attached to the shipment.

Who is Gracie Morton Pwerle?

She began her artistic career like most Utopia artists with the introduction of batik in the 1970s before taking up painting on canvas in the late 1980s. Gracie primarily draws inspiration from her 'Wild Plum Dream', Amwekety. This plant holds great significance for the Utopia Aborigines (the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre who live in the Eastern Desert). The importance of this vitamin C–rich fruit for food, but also the spiritual significance of this Dream of which Gracie is one of its custodians.

She inherited the rights to this Dream from her father and aunt. She paints it in the manner of other desert artists, like an aerial view.

The color of the canvas background describes the season, since the plum tree can be clothed in flowers during the winter months but changes completely in appearance between the wet season and the dry season. By using very fine dots she creates a three-dimensional effect.

This style, close in technique to some Utopia artists such as Kathleen Petyarre, the Purvis family (Kathleen), and especially Anna Petyarre or Abie Loy, ... takes on a very personal aspect by focusing on the very structure of the Wild Plum Dream (just a few lines blended into the stippled background).

It is this distinctive style that allowed Gracie to make a name for herself in the late 1990s.

Today her works are frequently exhibited in major exhibitions, not only in the great Australian cities but also in Europe or the USA.

The work will be shipped unstretched in a cardboard shipping tube.