Title
West MacDonnell Ranges, NT
2007
Artist
-
Details
- Place where the work was made
-
Alice Springs
→
Northern Territory
→
Australia
- Cultural origin
- Western Arrernte
- Date
- 2007
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- watercolour on white wove paper on board
- Dimensions
- 26.8 x 37.4 cm image (irreg.); 27.9 x 39.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. corner recto, black fibre-tipped pen "IVY PAREROULTJA".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 288.2012
- Copyright
- © Ivy Pareroultja, courtesy Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre
- Artist information
-
Ivy Pareroultja
Works in the collection
- Share
-
About
Ivy Pareroultja is one of the leaders in a new generation of artists continuing the legacy of the renowned Hermannsburg School of watercolour painters. Ivy is the daughter of Edwin Pareroultja, a contemporary of Albert Namatjira’s and a significant artist in his own right. Significantly, Edwin Pareroultja’s painting 'Amulda Gorge', c.1947 was the first work by an Aboriginal artist purchased for the Gallery’s collection. Edwin, along with his brothers, Otto and Reuben, was known for his use of brilliant colour, graphic forms and strong patternation.
In recent years Ivy Pareroultja has mastered the skills inherited from her father to produce striking watercolours through the Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre (Alice Spings). This art centre was established in 2003 to foster the Western Arrernte descendants of the Hermannsburg School of painters, and can be credited with a revival of their distinctive watercolour style.
Pareroultja’s works are distinguished by their luminous high-keyed colour, stylised forms and distinctive line work. The format of her paintings follow the established conventions for Hermannsburg works. However, Pareroultja offers a very personal account of this tradition, through the construction of enlivened landscapes that show the clarity of central Australian light and celebrate Pareroultja’s intimate attachment to country.
-
Places
Where the work was made
Alice Springs
-
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
The hills beyond Hermannsburg, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Mar 2014–02 Jun 2014
Drawing out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 21 Nov 2014–26 Jan 2015
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
-
Anne Ryan, Drawing out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014, 'Ivy Pareroultja', pg. 39-44, Sydney, 2014, 40 (colour illus.), 95.
-