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Artist: Gloria Petyarre (1938-)

Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community

She is self-taught and is the first Aboriginal artist to win the Wynne Prize for Landscape

She has received international acclaim for her Bush Medicine Leaf paintings, and her work is exhibited in over ten different museums and galleries

Her paintings were so influential that hers has become the most popular style among Australian Aboriginal artists

She is one of the founding members of the Utopia Women’s Batik Group

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