Dolly Mills Petyarre
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Artist Profile · Northern Territory
Dolly Mills Petyarre
Anmatyerre artist from Alhalkere, painting Kame (pencil yam seed) and Emu Tucker.
Born
c. 1948
Language group
Anmatyerre
Skin name
Petyarre (also spelled Pitjara)
Country
Alhalkere, Utopia region, NT
Family and early work
Dolly Mills Petyarre comes from one of Utopia’s most important artistic families. She is a full sister of the artist Greeny Purvis Petyarre, and a niece of the renowned Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Like many Utopia women, Dolly first worked in batik. She took part in Utopia: A Picture Story, the collection of 88 silk batiks now in the Holmes à Court Collection, before she began painting on canvas in the early 1990s.
Her work
The main subject of Dolly’s work is Kame, the seed of the pencil yam, along with Emu Tucker. Both belong to her Country, Alhalkere, the same Country that inspired her aunt Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Emu Tucker
Silk batik
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