Sarrita King

Sarrita King Date of Birth 1988 NT

Sarrita’s paintings have an extraordinary discipline behind them, no doubt this comes from in
part her famous father William King, sadly deceased.

She belongs to the Gurindji Tribe located near Katherine in the Northern Territory. Her
paintings are inspired by the land and the environment where she grew up.

Sarrita is not only an accomplished artist she is also a recognised sportswomen being
accepted into The Australian Institute of Sport in Adelaide.

She has a genuine connection to the land, as a child she was fascinated by the monsoonal
storms found in the Top End of Australia. She would find new designs and colours each time
these wet season storms occurred.

The very fine and intricate dotwork all with a short and precise flick up or down at the end of
her application creates an illusion of movement and along with the acrylic paint she uses, her
pictures give off a warm shimmering contemporary appeal.

Sarah Morton

Sarah Morton Kngwarreye is an Alyawarre woman from Ngkwarlerlaneme Community in the
Utopia Homelands, Central Australia. Her career as an artist began by participating in the
CAAMA batik project of the late eighties and one of her works on silk forms part of the
Holmes a Court Collection of Utopian batiks
Sarah lives a semi traditional lifestyle dividing her time between Alice Springs and the remote
outpost of Ngkwarlerlaneme. She is renowned for her precise and intricate dotting style and
her recent works on canvas invariably convey something of the story of her totemic animal the
Honey Ant (Yerramp) which is prized for its edible liquid filled abdomen.

Collections:

Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Holmes á Court Collection, Perth

Sammy Petyarre

Sammy Petyarre is from the Utopia Homelands, 200 km North of Alice Springs.

His art is a very good representation of fine and deliberate dot work which comes to represent the country and the stories of his Dreamings within it. He uses bold icons to depict his dreaming with a strong and constant use of colour. His daughter, Janet Golder carries on this similar precision in her dot work while depicting the country.

Ruby Ross Napaltjarri

Born circa 1945, Ruby is a Warlpiri woman who was born at Yuendumu in the Western
Desert of Central Australia. She now lives with her husband Paddy at Ti Tree, 200km North
of Alice Springs. Ruby is the younger sister of Helen White Napaltjarri who is also an artist
and paints using the same technique of very fine individual dots in their paintings.

When questioned about the context of her paintings, Ruby seems reluctant to give too much
away, which is not uncommon for many of the artists we represent. When asked who taught
her to paint like this she responded “it was my singing, my song”. Quite often the information
or story contained within a painting is for sharing with initiates only. In traditional aboriginal
culture, each person passes through a series of initiations in their lifetime, with each stage
meaning greater access to knowledge of dreaming stories and ceremonies. Hence, even an
uninitiated aboriginal person will not be told ‘the full story’. What we do know about Ruby’s
work is that the consistent theme is ‘Meeting Place’ and presents an aerial depiction of
waking paths or ‘tracking lines’ through her country.

One can assume that these paths are not necessarily physical in nature but denote a
dreaming song or ‘story’ that runs through the land and acts as a boundary and or walking
route that is recognised as a significant part of the landscape from which indigenous people
have subsisted for countless years. Where these lines intersect is called ‘Meeting Place’ in
English and may represent a special place or a sacred site reserved for Ceremony. 

Ruby Morton Kngwarreye

Ruby was born in 1965 ca and she lives in the Utopia Region in the Northern Territory, she is
a Alyawarr language speaker.

Ruby is renowned for the intricate style and tiny dot work in her paintings. Her pieces are
often representative of her country, including wildflowers, seeds, bush plum and honey ants,
all of which can be found at her home at Kurrajong Bore in the Utopia Homelands. 

Ruby Daniels

Ruby is an emerging Pintupi artist from the Kintore Region now living in Areyonga, born c,
1960.
She is a daughter of the well known artist Linda Syddick Napaltjarri.
Her dreamings include Bush potato and The Seven Sisters. Ruby often paints in a narrative
style that passes on the dreaming stories of her mother's country.

Her unique style blends traditional dot work with more contemporary patterning. 

Rosie Pula

Born circa 1945 in Central Australia, Rosie is an Anmatyerre woman who lives at Mosquito
Bore in the Utopia Homelands. As an artist, she emerged from the CAAMA batik program of
the early eighties in Utopia, where she travelled together with other artists to Samoa to learn
Batik techniques. Rosie has since developed into a known artist using acrylic paints on
canvas. Her style consists of very fine dot work often combined with Awelye (body paint
design) which depicts both the country, the bush plum and the bush plum seeds fallen to the
ground. Her work celebrates sacred women's ceremonies and this native food source which is
her plant totem. Her unique motif that she incorporates into most of her recent paintings has a
dual perspective. It is an aerial view of the land incorporating a walking track and a ‘meeting
place’ or ceremonial site. From a vertical perspective however, the design resembles the
leaves and fruit of the bush plum plant itself.