'UNJANGOLA: MY FATHERS COUNTRY' | MARGARET LOY PULA
Mitchell Fine Art
Aboriginal & Contemporary Art, Brisbane. Onsite parking. Mon-Fri 10-5.30pm, Sat 10-5pm @mitchellfineartgallery
21 March – 15 April 2023
A solo exhibition of artworks depicting traditional Aboriginal stories and tradition is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley from 21st March 2023.
Hailing from the small, remote community of Utopia (Urapuntja) in Central Australia, award winning artist Margaret Loy Pula paints her culture, tradition, and her father’s dreaming.
The small community of Utopia has been at the forefront of the Australian contemporary Aboriginal art movement and is home of artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye and the Petyarre sisters – Gloria, Kathleen, Nancy, Ada, Myrtle, and Violet.
Exposed to art for all her life, Margaret Loy Pula is the daughter of Kathleen Petyarre?(dec). Her?story is ‘Anatye’ or Bush Potato Dreaming, and her fine detailed artworks portray the traditional bush food that has sustained the Anmatyerre people for thousands of years.
“This painting is about my culture. That’s my father’s dreaming. This is from my father’s country, that country is called “Unjangola” says Loy Pula.
Margaret Loy Pula was the first Indigenous artist to win the prestigious Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize and the first female artist to win the Sunshine Coast Art Prize and Paddington Art Prize.?
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In 2017 Margaret Loy Pula won the Tattersall's Art Prize in Brisbane.
Margaret Loy Pula has held exhibitions in New York and exhibited at some of the world’s top art fairs including Art Singapore, Art Miami, New York, and Zona MACO in Mexico City.
The exhibition is showing at Mitchell Fine Art, 86 Arthur Street Fortitude Valley from 21st March to 15th April?2023.
*There will be no events for this exhibition.
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