GRACIE MORTON (PWERLE) ABORIGINAL FINE ART 58 X 86 CM

Gracie Pwerl Morton areer began in the 1970's with the Utopia Women's Batik Group and on canvas in the late 1980's. Her work has been well received in galleries throughout Australia and around the world. Gracie works with great strength and dynamism of the Utopian women artists that continues across the generations. Gracie's delicate dotting and colour variation uses an aerial perspective to portray the seasonal changes of the Amwekety - the Bush Plum, a plant of great significance to the women of Gracie's traditional country, Mosquito Bore. Gracie Morton style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colors. Her signature theme is the "bush plum" stories known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety. Gracie work, first featured in the important Robert Holmes à Court Collection, is now in many important private and public collections around the world.

The finesse of Gracie's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her works.  Gracie's works are represented in major private collections such as The Robert Holmes a Court Collection in Western Australia. She exhibits regularly in Australia, more recently in a solo show titled 'Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist' at Ancient Earth Indigenous Art Gallery in Cairns and in a group exhibition at the Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy in Canberra.

The Bush Plum is a highly nutritious small fruit with black seeds, rich in vitamin C, that can be eaten raw or cooked. Growing in a great profusion of flower and fruit throughout the winter months, the women, accompanied by the children collect the Bush Plums, while at the same time reconfirming their connection to the land.

Solo Exhibitions:

2000 Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, Australia Group Exhibitions:

1985 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1986 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1989 Utopia Women's Paintings. The First Works on Canvas. A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1989-91 Utopia - A Picture Story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, Australia; The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Ireland; Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1991 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1991 8th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia

1992 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1993 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1994 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1998 Utopia und Balgo Hills, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany

1998 Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam. Netherlands

1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florenz, Italy

1999 Alliance Francaise de Canberra and French Embassy. Australia

1999 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, Australia

1999 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, Australia

1999 My Country - Journey of our Ancestors, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns

2000 Kunst der Aborigines, Leverkusen, Germany

2000 Mosquito Bore - The Art of the Minimalist, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art,Australia

2001 alice.fitzroy@af, Alliance Francaise de Canberra , Canberra, Australia

2001 The Unseen in Scene, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany

2001-02 Recounting the Essence of Life. Art from Australia, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

2002 Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Ruegen, Germany

2002 Kult(o)urnacht, Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany.

COLLECTIONS: 
Corporate and private collection in Australia and throughout the world including Beher-Sammlung Privatsammlungen Reimers-Stiftung, Slaughter and May International Law, London; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia;  Art Gallery of South Australia; Artbank Sydney; Holmes a' Court Collection Perth.