Gloria Petyarre is an Anmatyerre woman born in 1945. Her country is Mulga Bore in the Utopia region of the north-east desert region of the Northern Territory, approx 240k from Alice Springs. Her seven sisters include painters Ada Bird Petyarre and Kathleen Petyarre. Since she started painting in the mid 1990s she has become one of the most consistently well-known Australian Indigenous painters. Petyarre also paints Awelye (women’s ceremonies) derived from women’s body paint designs. Other subjects are those based on bush food of a great variety. A leading member of the Utopia batik group in the 1980s, she travelled to Ireland, England, France, Thailand and India representing the Utopia women with the exhibition that showed these works, Utopia – A Picture Story, the Holmes à Court Collection, 1990. Since, Petyarre has become one of the most widely exhibited Utopia artists whose works have been exhibited in hundreds of galleries around Australia and internationally.