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Kngwarreye was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community
in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and
successful artists in the history of contemporary Indigenous Australian
[...] in 1910, Kngwarreye did not take up painting seriously until
she was nearly 80. She lived in the Anmatyerre language group at
Alhalkere in the Utopia community, about 250 km north east of Alice
Springs. For much of her later life she was mostly known, along with the
rest of this community, for her batik work. Acrylic paintings were
introduced to Utopia in 1988-89 by Rodney Gooch and others of the
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association. An exhibition of some
of the paintings of these artists' work organised by CAAMA was held
called "A Summer Project", where Kngwarreye's work got immediate
attention from critics. The attention she received coincided with the
worldwide art boom that occurred at this time.