Anmanari Brown (c1930/32) Australia
Lot 31
(Minima Tjuta Tjukurrpa)
Acrylic on canvas
103 x 107cm
Provenance Irrunytju Arts Centre, Alice Springs (05154); Private Collection, Hobart
Inscribed artist name, dimensions, gallery, item code 'IRR05154' verso
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,500
Born at Purpurna, secret country of the water snake, she travelled around with her family living a traditional, nomadic way of life, before any contact with Euro-Australian society. In the 1950s her family was moved out of the bush to live at Warburton, a Christian Mission at the time. She later moved to Irrunytju.
Brown began work as an artist in 2000, the art mixing modern painting techniques with ancient designs and cultural law. Brown often painted with her new friend, Tjayanka Woods, and in 2007 they moved Papulankutja. In 2010 the two women held their first solo exhibition together at the Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne. Her paintings often depict stories from Seven Sisters Dreaming, not explicitly depicted figures of features of the landscape, but using iconographic symbols to represent them, patterned lines to represent tracks in a journey, or seven small shapes or lines to represent the sisters. She also sometimes uses colours symbolically.
Collections: Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Wagner Collection USA
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