Community Linkup: Emily Kam KngwarAray
Join us for our Community Linkup in collaboration with the TATE, working together to make the arts more accessible to our communities. Each month we’ll host our Community Linkups, taking you to see exciting new exhibitions entirely for free.
DETAILS
Time - 1pm
Location - TATE Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Date - 20th July
Community Linkups are spaces created for those with a love of storytelling, from photography to film, literature to music and anything in between - it’s a space for you to make friends, explore new worlds and attend a free exhibition.
We will be meeting up to see indigenous Australian artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray's major exhibition.
Renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c.1914–1996) created compelling, powerful works that reflect her extraordinary life as an Anmatyerr woman born in Alhalker in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory of Australia.
One of the world’s most significant painters to emerge in the late 20th century, her lived experience and cultural connections to her Country was translated into vibrant batiks and later into monumental paintings on canvas. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, the concept of Country encompasses the lands, skies and waters to which they are deeply connected, over countless generations. Country is a shared place of spiritual, social and geographical origins. Kngwarray’s art embodies her detailed knowledge of the places where she lived throughout her life with layered motifs representing the plants, animals and geological features that formed the desert ecosystems around her.
Discover rich textiles, paintings, film and audio elements that embody the expansive scope of Kngwarray’s Ancestral Country and culture.
Created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), this will be the first large-scale presentation of Kngwarray’s work ever held in Europe and a celebration of her extraordinary career as one of Australia’s greatest artists.
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