Teresa Purla Anmatyerre, b. 1963
Country, 2023
acrylic on linen
90 x 150 cm
35 3/8 x 59 in
35 3/8 x 59 in
MM6989
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Teresa Purla is an Anmatyere artist from the Utopia region of the Northern Territory, born in 1963. Her grandmother was the celebrated painter the late Minnie Pwerle and her mother,...
Teresa Purla is an Anmatyere artist from the Utopia region of the Northern Territory, born in 1963. Her grandmother was the celebrated painter the late Minnie Pwerle and her mother, the equally celebrated artist, Barbara Weir.
She has been painting since she was a young woman - inspired by her country of Atnwengerrp - country of grandmother, mother and other female relatives, and especially the tracks of her creation ancestors - just near her home and in an extremely beautiful area surrounded by towering gums along the banks of a large and often-dry river bed. The tracks of her ancestors as they danced can be clearly see in the imprints on smooth rock formations.
She has been painting since she was a young woman - inspired by her country of Atnwengerrp - country of grandmother, mother and other female relatives, and especially the tracks of her creation ancestors - just near her home and in an extremely beautiful area surrounded by towering gums along the banks of a large and often-dry river bed. The tracks of her ancestors as they danced can be clearly see in the imprints on smooth rock formations.
