Annette Pitjara Davis.
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Artist Profile · Northern Territory
Annette Pitjara Davis
Central Desert artist painting the bush tucker and desert flowers of her homelands.
Born
c. 1958
Language group
Anmatyerre
Country
Adelaide Bore, NT
Mother
Margaret Davis Kemarre
A family of artists
Annette comes from a well-known painting family in the Central Desert region of the Northern Territory. She lives with her mother, the artist Margaret Davis Kemarre, at Adelaide Bore, and the two share both their subjects and their Country.
Her work
Like her mother, Annette paints the bush tucker and desert flowers that are so important in the harsh, dry country of their homelands. Her paintings are delicate and intricate, carefully built up to show each plant and flower.
Her style grows out of her traditional heritage and carries on the grass-roots approach of Eunice Napangardi, who painted alongside Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri in the early days of the desert art movement. Like Napangardi, Annette is known for her Bush Banana paintings.
Bush tucker
Desert flowers
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