Kudditji Kngwarreye 1927 - 2016

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SmithDavidson Gallery

Kudditji Kngwarreye was born around 1928 in Utopia, a community in the Eastern Desert at about 230 km northeast of Alice Springs. He is one of the elders of the Anmatyerre language group and an important custodian of many important Dreamings. Kudditji is one of the first established male artists from Utopia.

Kudditji began painting his Emu Dreamings in a precise "dot painting' style. Later on he switched to the more abstract ‘My country 'style, consisting of coarse blocks with saturated colors in different tones. The 'My country' paintings can be seen as a representation of Kudditji's birthplace, where the shapes and colours of land and sky during the for day, night and changing seasons beautifully emerge. This style is reminiscent of the late work of his older ‘sister’ Emily, in which she also works with compositions of colourful fields. It is not sure who first started painting in this style. Due to the high demand for his earlier work, Kudditji went back to paint in his dot-painting style for a while.

Since he began to exhibit his abstract work in 2003 however, his star steadily arises in the international art world. Today Kudditji because of his deteriorating health forced in one place (Alice Springs) to stay.

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