Emily Kame Kngwarreye
(Utopia, Sandover, Australia 1910–1996 Alice Springs, Australia)
Untitled, 1994, with archive number #4305 on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 91 cm, on stretcher
We thank Tara Ebers from the Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne, Australia, for her kind support in cataloguing this work.
Provenance:
The artist
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne (inscription on the reverse and invoice available in photocopy)
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above in 1999)
“Whole lot, that’s the whole lot. Aweleye (my Dreaming), Arlatyeye (pencil yam), Arkerrthe (mountain devil lizard), Ntange (grass seed), Tingu (a Dreamtime pup), Ankerre (emu), Intekwe (a favorite food of emus, a small plant) Atnwerle (green bean), and Kame (yam seed). That’s what I paint: whole lot.”
—Emily Kam Kngwarray
Inspired by the topographies of land and sky, the cycles of season, flooding waters and rains, seeds, harvest, and spiritual forces, her paintings depict the enduring narratives and symbols of her people and their land, and the keeping of precious shared knowledge and stories. The name “Kame” denotes the pencil yam and its seeds, Emily’s totem and thus the motivating force of her oeuvre.
Gagosian, on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at the gallery’s rue de Ponthieu space in Paris, January 21 – March 26, 2022: URL: gagosian.com/exhibitions/2022/emily-desert-painter-of-australia/ (23.10.2026)
Her work has been presented in exhibitions at leading international institutions and galleries, including Pace Gallery (New York, USA), Tate Modern (London, UK), Pace Gallery (London, UK) A major solo exhibition of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work is currently on view at the Opale Foundation (Lens, Switzerland) from June 14 to November 8, 2026; URL: www.fondationopale.ch/de/ausstellungen/emily-kam-kngwarray/(23.10.2026)
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
(Utopia, Sandover, Australia 1910–1996 Alice Springs, Australia)
Untitled, 1994, with archive number #4305 on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 91 cm, on stretcher
We thank Tara Ebers from the Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne, Australia, for her kind support in cataloguing this work.
Provenance:
The artist
Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne (inscription on the reverse and invoice available in photocopy)
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above in 1999)
“Whole lot, that’s the whole lot. Aweleye (my Dreaming), Arlatyeye (pencil yam), Arkerrthe (mountain devil lizard), Ntange (grass seed), Tingu (a Dreamtime pup), Ankerre (emu), Intekwe (a favorite food of emus, a small plant) Atnwerle (green bean), and Kame (yam seed). That’s what I paint: whole lot.”
—Emily Kam Kngwarray
Inspired by the topographies of land and sky, the cycles of season, flooding waters and rains, seeds, harvest, and spiritual forces, her paintings depict the enduring narratives and symbols of her people and their land, and the keeping of precious shared knowledge and stories. The name “Kame” denotes the pencil yam and its seeds, Emily’s totem and thus the motivating force of her oeuvre.
Gagosian, on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at the gallery’s rue de Ponthieu space in Paris, January 21 – March 26, 2022: URL: gagosian.com/exhibitions/2022/emily-desert-painter-of-australia/ (23.10.2026)
Her work has been presented in exhibitions at leading international institutions and galleries, including Pace Gallery (New York, USA), Tate Modern (London, UK), Pace Gallery (London, UK) A major solo exhibition of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work is currently on view at the Opale Foundation (Lens, Switzerland) from June 14 to November 8, 2026; URL: www.fondationopale.ch/de/ausstellungen/emily-kam-kngwarray/(23.10.2026)
Specialist: Mag. Patricia Pálffy
