Kudditji Kngwarreye | 'My Country, 2012' | 180x300cm
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Code: DDKK12001
Artist: Kudditji Kngwarreye
Title: My Country
Area: Utopia, NT
Community: Anmatyerre / Alyawerre
Medium: Acrylic On Linen
Size: 180x300cm
Year: 2012
Kudditji Kngwarreye's My Country paintings are broad, wordless recollections of the land he belonged to in Utopia, held in memory rather than mapped in detail. He painted his country the way it felt to stand in it — the heat, the light, the shifting colour of the ground and sky at different times of day — rather than the way it looked from above. Each canvas in the series is a different mood of the same place, painted without reference to any tradition but his own.
Kudditji Kngwarreye (c. 1928–2017) was Emily Kame Kngwarreye's younger brother and the undisputed master of the colour field style in Aboriginal art. His atmospheric, Rothko-like compositions of broad colour washes were created without any knowledge of Western art movements — a remarkable parallel that makes his work all the more extraordinary.