Emily Kame Kngwarreye The Element of VALUE

Emily was born at Ahalkere in Utopia region Emily was born at Ahalkere in Utopia region. She learned the ancestral stories, songs, traditional body painting for women’s dancing ceremonies, and became a leader in women’s ceremonial business. Working as a stockhand, she became very familiar with the Utopia landscape, and her paintings are maps of her traditional lands.

Emily painted abstract “landscapes” using subtle value differences to replicate the colors of the land- My Country.

Emily used white to lighten a color and create many tints of that color.

Emily used black to create darker shades of the colors she used.

In Earth’s Creation, Emily used shades and tints of all the colors.