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A Unique Utopian Artists

 

Gracie Pwerle Morton was born at a station in Utopia. began her career as an batik artist in the 1970's with the Utopia Women's Batik Group before transferring her designs onto canvas in the late 1980's. In the works of Gracie Pwerel Morton one can readily see that the great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continues across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and color variation uses an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Amwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.

She has always lived a traditional lifestyle, spending her early years collecting bush foods and living off the land.  This was the way of life for central desert families throughout the generations.  Her education involved living and surviving in a desert environment just as her mother had done.  Her style of painting is distinctively minimalist: she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colors, which derive from the colors of natural ochres.

Gracie has received world wide recognition for her very fine works, and was included at an early stage of her career in the Robert Holmes à Court Collection - one of the most prestigious private collections in Australia.

 

Gracie has exhibited all over Australia, and below is a list of International exhibitions that the artists has been included in:

• 1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany

• 1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam. Netherlands

• 1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florenz, Italy

• 1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy. Australia

• 2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany 

• 2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany

• 2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

• 2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany

• 2002 Kult(o)urnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany

 

Bibliography:

• Das Verborgene im Sichtbaren. The Unseen in Scene. Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer,

• Utopia - A Picture Story: 88 Works on Silk. The Robert Holmes à Court Collection. Brody, A. (Hrsg.), Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc., Adelaide 1989

• Utopia Women's Paintings: The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project 1988-89. The Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Brody, A. (Hrsg.), Heytesbury Holdings, Perth 1989

 

 

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