Delvine Petyarre
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Artist Profile · Northern Territory
Delvine Petyarre
Fine black-and-white dot paintings of her Country at Boundary Bore, Utopia.
Born
c. 1982
Language group
Anmatyerre
Skin name
Petyarre (also spelled Pitjara, Petyarr)
Country
Atneltyeye (Boundary Bore), Utopia Homelands, NT
Family and Country
Delvine Petyarre is the younger sister of the well-known Utopia artist Anna Petyarre, and shares the same stories and Country. She is connected to Country at Atneltyeye, or Boundary Bore, on the Utopia Homelands in Central Australia.
Like her sister, Delvine learned her painting skills and stories from her family. Her mother was the artist Glory Ngale, and through her grandparents she is related to the famous artists Kudditji Kngwarreye and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Her work
Delvine continues the Utopia tradition of fine dot work to represent Country, showing the undulating sandhills and the dry riverbeds that mark the landscape. Her paintings are graphic, mostly in black and white, and reveal the important sites and places scattered across her Country.
Sandhills
Dry riverbeds
Fine dot work
Black & white
Related artists
Through her grandparents, Delvine is related to two of Utopia’s most celebrated painters, Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Kudditji Kngwarreye.
Buying Delvine’s work
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