{"title":"Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-pwerle-morton","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e150cm x 88cm \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Gracie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn on Utopia Station, c.1956, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of well known artist Myrtle Petyarre. As with other women artists from the Utopia region of Australia, Gracie began her painting career in the 1980s working with batik, then commenced painting with acrylics on canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGracie Morton Pwerle's style of painting is distinctively minimalist: she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours, which derive from the colours of natural ochres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the artwork\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this painting, Gracie paints the Bush Plum seeds. The Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flower and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children collect the bush plums, while at the same time reconfirming their confirmation to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flourish of colour that distinguishes the bush plum after the fall of the rain is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sunbaked landscape by the hot summer winds\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":24955045773376,"sku":"CP03331","price":4495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/Gracie_Morton_Pwerle_Bush_Plum_Dreaming_-_150x88cm.JPG?v=1617521624"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-4","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biotopcnt\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biotopinf\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0); font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e200cm by 130cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0); font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOB:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ec. 1956 \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBORN:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUtopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAlyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eCOMMUNITY:\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eUtopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263kms north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flower and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollections\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39259611594787,"sku":"CPP887","price":4495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/realylargeochre2.png?v=1640145799"},{"product_id":"my-country-by-gracie-jurrah-nungarrayi","title":"\"My Country\" by Gracie Jurrah Nungarrayi","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e60cm by 60cm \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Gracie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGracie resides between Kintore in the Western Desert and Alice Springs. She is a member of the Pintupi tribe. Pintupi people moved (or were moved) into the Aboriginal communities of Papunya and Haasts Bluss in the west of the Northern Territory from the 1940s to the 1980s. The last Pintupi to leave their traditional lifestyle in the desert, in 1984, is a group known as the Pintupi Nine, also sometimes called the \"lost tribe\". \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver recent decades, groups of Pintupi have moved back to their traditional country, as a part of what has come to be called the outstation movement. These groups set up the communities of Kintore in the Northern Territory, Kiwirrkura, and Jupiter Well in Western Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGracie comes from a family of artists and paints stories of her country that have been passed onto her from her ancestors. She mainly paints stories from her country near Kintore and women's dreaming stories. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Jurrah Nungurrayi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39286316072995,"sku":"","price":495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/Mycountrysquare.jpg?v=1618300657"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-8","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopcnt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopinf\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" class=\"copy\"\u003eSize: 200 by 130  cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" class=\"copy\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" class=\"copy\"\u003eFree Worldwide Shipping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioUL\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39375521153059,"sku":"","price":8995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/files\/Gracie_Morton_-_Purple_Bush_Plum_Dreaming.jpg?v=1722659581"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-9","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e131cm by 201.5cm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGet in touch to commission artwork by Gracie Morton in your preferred size. (Approx 2 weeks to completion)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Gracie \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn on Utopia Station, c.1956, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of well-known artist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Myrtle Petyarre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand the sister of famous artists Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre. There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Not only Gracie’s aunties but her sisters, Mary, Rita, and Elizabeth, are also artists. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia. Her artworks have been well received throughout Australia and overseas. Gracie is a senior traditional custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, and in accordance with traditional law she is responsible for ensuring the Dreaming, customs, and traditions associated with the Bush Plum are upheld. This responsibility was passed down to Gracie from her father and aunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s primary subject in her artwork is Arnwekety and through her artwork, she depicts the changing seasonal influences on the plant. Gracie creates a wonderful lyricism in her artworks, causing a three-dimensional visual effect that guides the observer through the soft outward reaching fields of color.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s artworks are represented in major private collections including the Holmes à Court Collection and her artworks are exhibited regularly throughout Australia. She has been a part of international exhibitions in China, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the artwork\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this painting, Gracie paints the Bush Plum seeds. The Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flower and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the bush plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe flourish of color that distinguishes the bush plum after the fall of the rain is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sunbaked landscape by the hot summer winds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39389662052387,"sku":"69585","price":4995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/gracieredlarge.jpg?v=1627029717"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-10","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eArtist:      Gracie Morton Pwerle (Dec)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eRegion:    Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eSize:        200 x 88cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 128, 0);\"\u003eMedium: Acrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn around 1956 on Utopia Station, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of renowned artist Myrtle Petyarre and sister to prominent artists Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre. Her family and the Utopia community share a rich artistic heritage. Not only her aunties but also her sisters, Mary, Rita, and Elizabeth, are artists. Gracie began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project,” when acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to women at Utopia. Her work has been widely appreciated across Australia and internationally. As a senior custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, she ensures the traditions, customs, and stories linked to this Dreaming are maintained, a responsibility inherited from her father and aunt. Her artwork mainly features Arnwekety, illustrating the seasonal changes affecting the plant. Her pieces evoke a lyrical quality, creating a three-dimensional visual experience that leads viewers through tender, outward-reaching fields of colour. Gracie’s work is part of major private collections, including the Holmes à Court Collection, and is regularly exhibited across Australia. Her art has also been showcased in international exhibitions in China, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this painting,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGracie paints the Bush Plum seeds. The Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flower and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the bush plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the bush plum after the fall of the rain is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. 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(Approx 3 weeks to completion)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Gracie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn on Utopia Station, c.1956, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of well-known artist Myrtle Petyarre and the sister of famous artists Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre. There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Not only Gracie’s aunties but her sisters, Mary, Rita, and Elizabeth, are also artists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia. Her artworks have been well received throughout Australia and overseas. Gracie is a senior traditional custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, and in accordance with traditional law she is responsible for ensuring the Dreaming, customs, and traditions associated with the Bush Plum are upheld. This responsibility was passed down to Gracie from her father and aunt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s primary subject in her artwork is Arnwekety and through her artwork, she depicts the changing seasonal influences on the plant. 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There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Not only Gracie’s aunties but her sisters, Mary, Rita and Elizabeth, are also artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia. Her artworks have been well received throughout Australia and overseas. Gracie is a senior traditional custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, and in accordance with traditional law she is responsible for ensuring the Dreaming, customs and traditions associated with the Bush Plum are upheld. This responsibility was passed down to Gracie from her father and aunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s primary subject in her artwork is Arnwekety and through her artwork she depicts the changing seasonal influences on the plant. Gracie creates a wonderful lyricism in her artworks, causing a three-dimensional visual effect that guides the observer through the soft outward reaching fields of colour. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s artworks are represented in major private collections including the Holmes à Court Collection and her artworks are exhibited regularly throughout Australia. She has been a part of international exhibitions in China, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this painting,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGracie paints the Bush Plum seeds. The Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C that can be eaten raw or cooked. 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There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Not only Gracie’s aunties but her sisters, Mary, Rita, and Elizabeth, are also artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Gracie Morton began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia. Her artworks have been well received throughout Australia and overseas. Gracie is a senior traditional custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, and in accordance with traditional law she is responsible for ensuring the Dreaming, customs, and traditions associated with the Bush Plum are upheld. This responsibility was passed down to Gracie from her father and aunt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Gracie’s primary subject in her artwork is Arnwekety and through her artwork, she depicts the changing seasonal influences on the plant. Gracie creates a wonderful lyricism in her artworks, causing a three-dimensional visual effect that guides the observer through the soft outward-reaching fields of color. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Gracie’s artworks are represented in major private collections including the Holmes à Court Collection and her artworks are exhibited regularly throughout Australia. She has been a part of international exhibitions in China, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Roseanne Morton Petyarre is an Anmatyerre woman from the Utopia region of Central Australia. Utopia is an old outstation located 270km northeast of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She was born in 1984 and is part of a family of well-established artists, including her mother Gracie Morton Pwerle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Story of the Bush Plum Dreaming\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eGracie’s paintings are borne from traditional knowledge and her confident approach to painting is evident in the way she assembles the images of the bush seeds, piling dots over each other to create a dense surface using a rich palette of color. Gracie’s subject matter is drawn from acute observation and memory. There is an intimate knowledge of country, blended with personal history and ancestral journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Bush Plum Dreaming Story is a big story that spreads right across the western and central deserts from Lajamanu and Warlpiri country to the Utopia homelands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Bush Plum Dreaming or Creation Story from the Utopia region goes like this: In the Dreamtime, winds blew from all directions carrying the bush plum seed to the artists’ ancestral lands. The first bush plum of the Dreamings grew and bore fruit and dropped more seeds. Many winds blew the seeds all over the Dreaming lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e To ensure the continued fruiting of this plant each season, the Aboriginal people pay homage to the spirit of the bush plum by painting about it and recreating it in their ceremonies through song and dance. The patterns in the paintings celebrate the Bush Plum work on many levels: they represent the fruit of the plant, its leaves, and flowers and also the body paint designs that are associated with it during the ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The bush plum is a popular variety of bush tucker that is only found at certain times of the year. It is found throughout most of the Utopia region and as far west as Lajamanu. Sadly, it has declined in abundance due to the grazing of introduced animals, particularly cattle and rabbits. The bush plum fruits in the summer after rain and is an important food source, even though not all the plum is edible. The plums can be collected when ripe and immediately eaten, or they can be dried and eaten later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e When young, the fruit is green in appearance but as it matures, it becomes a purple-black color and is similar in looks to an olive. The plant can grow up to 3 meters high and has blue-green leaves and produces a creamy white flower, making it an attractive-looking plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The bush plum also plays an important part in Warlpiri Dreaming and ritual practices involved in Yilpinji, Love Magic. When a girl falls in love she goes to her female relatives and is instructed on how to attract her man as a lover. She weaves a belt out of her hair while singing Yilpinji songs imbuing the belt with magic. When the man approaches she entices him with her charms until he comes under the influence of her allure. She reveals the belt as his ardor grows and persuades him to place the belt around her waist. As he does, he falls under her spell and they go off together as a couple. Together they eat bush plums and hunt for food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Other important Warlpiri, on learning of their tryst, follows them and confront them as a couple and also eat the bush plums. In this way, the group recognizes their relationship and acknowledges that it is an appropriate match. They are now recognized by all as a couple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust like the artists from which Belinda learned, she possesses an innate sense of color. This style of work has often been compared to that of the 19th-century Impressionists; reminiscent of the color fields used and their immediate emotive quality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39886565998627,"sku":"","price":5495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/IMG_2524_872a32eb-6c5b-488c-b75b-25d5d87b304e.jpg?v=1670227118"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-7","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biotopcnt\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biotopinf\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize: 130 cm by 130 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. 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A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39893727871011,"sku":"","price":2495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/IMG_2586_e8fd9bbe-2364-4bd8-ab1b-6fce33f8f921.jpg?v=1670907932"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-11","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopcnt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopinf\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSize: 130 cm by 130 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 - 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioUL\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39893731475491,"sku":"","price":2495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/IMG_2582.jpg?v=1670908272"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-12","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biotopcnt\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biotopinf\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSize: 130 cm by 130 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 - 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39893736783907,"sku":"","price":2495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/IMG_2584_fd560958-432b-4618-8991-154946c5f401.jpg?v=1670908476"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-seeds-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-3","title":"\"Bush Plum Seeds\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eSize: 200 cm by 130 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn on Utopia Station, c.1956, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of well-known artist MyrtlePetyarre and the sister of famous artists Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre. There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Not only Gracie’s aunties but her sisters, Mary, Rita, and Elizabeth, are also artists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia. Her artworks have been well received throughout Australia and overseas. Gracie is a senior traditional custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, and in accordance with traditional law she is responsible for ensuring the Dreaming, customs, and traditions associated with the Bush Plum are upheld. This responsibility was passed down to Gracie from her father and aunt.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s primary subject in her artwork is Arnwekety and through her artwork, she depicts the changing seasonal influences on the plant. Gracie creates a wonderful lyricism in her artworks, causing a three-dimensional visual effect that guides the observer through the soft outward-reaching fields of color. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s artworks are represented in major private collections including the Holmes à Court Collection and her artworks are exhibited regularly throughout Australia. She has been a part of international exhibitions in China, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoseanne Morton Petyarre is an Anmatyerre woman from the Utopia region of Central Australia. Utopia is an old outstation located 270km northeast of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She was born in 1984 and is part of a family of well-established artists, including her mother Gracie Morton Pwerle\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eThe Story of the Bush Plum Dreaming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s paintings are borne from traditional knowledge and her confident approach to painting is evident in the way she assembles the images of the bush seeds, piling dots over each other to create a dense surface using a rich palette of color. Gracie’s subject matter is drawn from acute observation and memory. There is an intimate knowledge of country, blended with personal history and ancestral journey.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum Dreaming Story is a big story that spreads right across the western and central deserts from Lajamanu and Warlpiri country to the Utopia homelands.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum Dreaming or Creation Story from the Utopia region goes like this: In the Dreamtime, winds blew from all directions carrying the bush plum seed to the artists’ ancestral lands. The first bush plum of the Dreamings grew and bore fruit and dropped more seeds. Many winds blew the seeds all over the Dreaming lands.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo ensure the continued fruiting of this plant each season, the Aboriginal people pay homage to the spirit of the bush plum by painting about it and recreating it in their ceremonies through song and dance. The patterns in the paintings celebrate the Bush Plum work on many levels: they represent the fruit of the plant, its leaves, and flowers and also the body paint designs that are associated with it during the ceremony.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39918001291299,"sku":"","price":8995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/IMG_2687.jpg?v=1674813481"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-seeds-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-4","title":"\"Bush Plum Seeds\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eSize: 190 cm by 150 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Gracie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn on Utopia Station, c.1956, Gracie Morton Pwerle is the daughter of well-known artist Myrtle Petyarre and the sister of famous artists Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre. There is a rich artistic tradition that runs through Gracie’s family as well as the Utopia community. Not only Gracie’s aunties but her sisters, Mary, Rita, and Elizabeth, are also artists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton began painting in the late 1980s during the “A Summer Project”, where acrylic paints and canvas were introduced to the women of Utopia. Her artworks have been well received throughout Australia and overseas. Gracie is a senior traditional custodian of the Arnwekety (Bush Plum) Dreaming, and in accordance with traditional law she is responsible for ensuring the Dreaming, customs, and traditions associated with the Bush Plum are upheld. This responsibility was passed down to Gracie from her father and aunt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s primary subject in her artwork is Arnwekety and through her artwork, she depicts the changing seasonal influences on the plant. Gracie creates a wonderful lyricism in her artworks, causing a three-dimensional visual effect that guides the observer through the soft outward reaching fields of color.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie’s artworks are represented in major private collections including the Holmes à Court Collection and her artworks are exhibited regularly throughout Australia. She has been a part of international exhibitions in China, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39946424942627,"sku":"","price":5495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/graciemortonpwerle.jpg?v=1677912787"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-13","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biotopcnt\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biotopinf\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize: 200 cm by 130 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39950664007715,"sku":"","price":8995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/products\/graciemortonnew.jpg?v=1678435281"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-14","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by GRACIE MORTON PWERLE","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopcnt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopinf\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSize: 128 cm by 90 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eFree Worldwide Shipping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioUL\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40112942940195,"sku":"","price":2495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/files\/IMG_3464_30dde67c-baad-4299-91e1-e8adea107be7.jpg?v=1694504323"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-15","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by GRACIE MORTON PWERLE","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopcnt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopinf\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSize: 200 cm by 109 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eFree Worldwide Shipping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioUL\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40112943071267,"sku":"","price":8995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/files\/IMG_3475.jpg?v=1694504581"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-16","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopcnt\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"biotopinf\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSize: 197 cm by 106 cm  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eFree Worldwide Shipping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioTop\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e- 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copy\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"bioUL\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"copyJ\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40204081856547,"sku":"","price":4995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/files\/IMG_3778.jpg?v=1703138488"},{"product_id":"bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle-17","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biotopcnt\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eSize: 153 cm by 87 cm  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eFree Worldwide Shipping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 - 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. In accordance with traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of the greatest significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour, while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. 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She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. By traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum- depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of great significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye, guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums while reconfirming their connection to the land at the same time. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Kulturnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Group Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 60 by 60 - Small Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 Cup of Joy - New Works from Rising Stars, Japingka Gallery, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum \u0026amp; Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989-91 Utopia: A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 - 91 Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gracie Pwerle Morton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40282473037859,"sku":"","price":1995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/8669\/9584\/files\/IMG_3984.jpg?v=1709021040"},{"product_id":"copy-of-bush-plum-dreaming-by-gracie-morton-pwerle","title":"\"Bush Plum Dreaming\" by Gracie Morton Pwerle","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"biotopcnt\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"biotopinf\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSize: 106 cm by 95 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAcrylic paint on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFree Worldwide Shipping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDOB: c. 1956 - 2024\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBORN: Utopia, NT\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLANGUAGE GROUP: Alyawarre\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOMMUNITY: Utopia, NT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"bioTop\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"copy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton was born in Utopia, Northern Territory, around 1956. She is one of the senior traditional custodians for both the Altyerre (Dreaming) and the vast expanse of a related country, some 263 km north of Alice Springs. By traditional law, the responsibility for the Bush Plum Dreaming has been passed down to Gracie from her father and her aunt, who are responsible for ensuring that she perseveres its traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Pwerle Morton's career began in the 1970s with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980s. Her work has been well-received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continue across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation use an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGracie Morton's style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours. Her signature theme is the \"bush plum\" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe delightfully subtle paintings of the Arnwekety - the Bush Plum- depict the changing seasonal influences on a plant that is of great significance to the Alyawarre women of the Eastern Desert region of the Northern Territory. The incredible finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works, causing a three-dimensionality that pulls at the eye, guiding the viewer through the soft, outward-reaching fields of colour while simultaneously transfixing one in its undulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flowers and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children, collect the Bush Plums while reconfirming their connection to the land at the same time. The flourish of colour that distinguishes the Bush Plum after the fall of rain, is quickly transformed with the long hot summer months. Dried and separated, the seed and husk are scattered over the vast sun-baked landscape by the hot summer wind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"bioUL\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeher Collection, Reimers Foundation, Deidesheim, Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtbank, Sydney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolmes a Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlaughter and May International Law, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"copyJ\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelected Solo Exhibitions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2002 Land is Life. 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