ANNIE PITJARA HUNTER
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Artist Profile · Northern Territory
Annie Pitjara Hunter
Alyawarr artist of Utopia, known for her Awelye (women’s ceremony) and Sugarbag paintings.
Born
1964
Language group
Alyawarr
Skin name
Pitjara (also spelled Petyarre)
Country
Arawerre (Soapy Bore) and Irrultja, Utopia, NT
Family
Annie Pitjara Hunter is an Alyawarr woman from the Utopia region, about 260 km north-east of Alice Springs. She is the daughter of the painter Molly Pwerle and Johnny Ngwarrai Hunter, and painting runs through the family: her sisters are artists too, including Susan, Jessie and Sandy.
Her work
Annie has been part of the Utopia art movement since the 1980s, when she joined the Utopia Women’s Batik Group. Her silk batik was chosen for Utopia – A Picture Story, the CAAMA project now held in the Holmes à Court Collection, which toured widely in Australia and overseas. She moved to painting in acrylic in the late 1980s.
Like her sisters, Annie is best known for Awelye, the body designs painted for women’s ceremonies and all they symbolise. She also paints Sugarbag (native honey), Bush Plum (Arnwekety) and bush tucker in fine dot work.
Sugarbag
Arnwekety (Bush Plum)
Bush tucker
Batik
Collections
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Buying Annie’s work
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