Caroline Petrick Ngwarreye Eastern Arrernte/Alyawarre, b. 1966

Works
  • Caroline Petrick Ngwarreye, My Beautiful Country , 2025
    Caroline Petrick Ngwarreye
    My Beautiful Country , 2025
    acrylic on linen
    90 x 144 cm
    35 3/8 x 56 3/4 in
    $ 4,500.00
Exhibitions
Biography

Caroline Petrick Ngwarreye is an Eastern Arrernte and Alyawarr women born c 1966. Her traditional country is Irrerlirre approximately 250km northeast of Alice Springs in the beautiful Harts Range.

 

Caroline developed her artistic talents under the tutelage of her mother Jill Kelly Kemarre.  Her subtle paintings of intricate patterns of dot work and splashes of colour relate to her mother’s country and stories from Irrwelty. 

 

These stories include arnwekety – conkerberry, ntange – seeds and awelye – women’s ceremony.  The intricate pattern of dot and line work throughout Carolineʼs painting reflects her motherʼs traditional country Irrwelty, which lies on Alyawarre land approximately 300 kms north east of Alice Springs in Central Australia.