Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray
Artwork title: Yam Seeds
Medium: Synthetic polymer on linen
Size: 120 cm x 120 cm
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About the Artwork
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray is from Utopia, N.T. following in the footsteps of the celebrated family tradition of painting. She uses thousands of tiny flicks of colour to create her paintings inspired by the leaf, seed and flower of the bush yam, a tuber plant which is an important source of food and medicine. In her paintings, she shows the wind moving through the yam plant, producing a beautiful and captivating sense of movement as the coloured marks undulate across the canvas.
About the Artist
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray is from Utopia,in the Northern Territory, following in the footsteps of the celebrated family tradition of painting. She uses thousands of tiny flicks of colour to create her paintings inspired by the leaf, seed and flower of the bush yam, a tuber plant which is an important source of food and medicine. In her paintings, she shows the wind moving through the yam plant, producing a beautiful and captivating sense of movement as the coloured marks undulate across the canvas. Elizabeth has been painting since 2005 and been a finalist in the Wynne Prize for Landscape in 2008; 2010, as well as represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.