Jeanna Petyarre

Jeanna Petyarre was born c.1950s into the Petyarre artist family at Boundary Bore, an outstation on the Utopia homelands, 270km north east of Alice Springs. Jeanna began her painting career in the 1980s, with her works predominantly representing the traditional plants that her people collect and use as food sources and for medicinal purposes, specifically the Bush Yam and Bush Medicine Leaves. Originally from the Indonesian Islands, Batik textiles were introduced to Australia enmass in the early 1970s, where aboriginal artists developed it further as their own craft. In 1988, Jeanna joined a group of women who would go on to produce Batik work using desert design on silk and cotton. == Exhibitions ==

Exhibitions include: • 1989 Utopia Women's Paintings the first works on canvas • 1990 A Picture Story exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopian artists which toured Eire and Scotland • 2012 Desert Gold, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA == References ==