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Jeannie Petyarre
C 1950
Region: Utopia - Northern Territory, Adelaide - South Australia
Language Group: Anmatyerre/Alyawarre
Jeannie Petyarre was born in the early c.1950 at Boundry Bore, an outstation at Utopia station, east of Alice Springs in central Australia. Jeannie is a niece of the great Emily Kame Kngwarreye, sister of Rosemary Petyarre and half sister of Evelyn Pultara (2005 Telstra Award winner) and Greeny Purvis Petyarre, who passed away in 2010.
Jeannie is associated with many other family members, whom are also know artists, such as Petyarre sisters Gloria, Kathleen and Ada Bird Petyarre (passed away 2010).
In 1988, Jeannie Petyarre was part of the group who produced Batik work using desert design on silk and cotton. Jeannie was encouraged by her aunt, the famous Emily Kngwarreye to continue to paint her family's Yam Dreaming.
Jeannie's work tends to revolve around representations of leaves collected around her country and used for a variety of medicinal purposes. In particular, she returns again and again to "Bush Yam Leaves" and Bush Medicine", both of which themes show flowing representations of the leaves. Typical of Utopian artists, Jeannie rejoices in the use of colour.
