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Palm Valley 2013

Artwork Palm Valley this artwork made of Watercolour on paper, created in 2013-01-01
Accession No.
2016.321
Date Created
2013
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Dimensions A
54 x 36cm
Media Category
Painting
Secondary Media Category
watercolour
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Credit Line
The Glenn Manser Collection.
Gift of Glenn Manser through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Elton Wirri is the son of artists Doris Abbott and Kevin Wirri (Tjapaltjarri), inheritors of the painting tradition founded by renowned watercolourist Albert Namatjira at Hermannsburg (Ntaria) in Central Australia. Wirri grew up in Kaltukatjara (Docker River), located some 200 kilometres west of Uluru, and today works from the Aboriginal-owned and directed Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre.

In this painting, Wirri has depicted Palm Valley that is situated within the Finke Gorge National Park and is home to the red cabbage palm, from which the area takes its name. Palm Valley is a meandering landscape of sandstone amphitheatres, peaks and gorges, located some 140 kilometres west of Alice Springs.

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A watercolour painting of a Central Australian landscape.
THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

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Patrick Tjungurrayi / Pintupi/Kukatja people / Australia c.1940–2017 / Untitled (Ngaru) (detail) 2009 / Purchased 2020. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Estate of Patrick Tjungurrayi/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

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