EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY - Australia's most famous artist.

AGOD / EBEScontemporary has the largest collection of EMILY paintings (if you want to own one - contact us - prices range from under $100,000 to over $1m+++; sizes range from small to extra large (we have a range or Rovers +++; largest collection of Australian indigenous dot paintings, Aboriginal Art - in the world = all for sale.
 

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anmatyerr people, Yam awely, 1995, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of the Delmore Collection, Donald and Janet Holt 1995.

 
Painting of native grasses after the rain in pink, yellow, black, and white.

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anmatyerr people, Ntang Dreaming, 1989, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1989 © Emily Kam Kngwarray/Copyright Agency

Emily Kam Kngwarray celebrates the timeless art of a pre-eminent Australian artist, one of the world’s most significant contemporary painters to emerge in the twentieth century. A senior Anmatyerr woman, Kngwarray devoted her final years to painting, creating works that encapsulate the experience and authority she gained throughout an extraordinary life.

The exhibition is an extensive survey of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s work, bringing together the most important works of her oeuvre, from early vibrant batik textiles to later monumental paintings on canvas. The exhibition features an audiovisual collaboration with the artist’s community, with the songs of the awely that informed Kngwarray's works woven through a series of immersive soundscapes and audio tours.

Emily Kam Kngwarray includes paintings, textiles and works on paper drawn from international and national collections. Many never before seen works from private collections are included in the exhibition, along with new acquisitions of the artist’s seminal works in the national collection.

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The exhibition continues to build on the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative which celebrates the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.

 

Curators: Kelli Cole, Warumungu and Luritja peoples, Curator, Special Projects, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Hetti Perkins, Arrernte and Kalkadoon peoples, Senior Curator-at-Large, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.

 

PLEASE note that the vast majority of the AGOD / EBEScontemporary collection (the world's biggest commercial indigenous / aboriginal art gallery : was purchased directly from the artists decades ago. The vast majority of the artists have since deceased and this art has never left the collection. So you can be guaranteed of the quality : all come with the standard legal certificale / title. Prices are low for the fact that we own all and we sell from our home / premises. SO = you will not pay the normal 20% buyers premium from an auction house nor the 50% art gallery commission. AND we will cover all costs of delivery (and all come framed : any questions? God Bless - indigenous art is SPECIAL & this collection - Biggest and Best in the world = we think. We also conclude The Emily Wall is the most important Australian painting = agreed?

Marzo 16, 2025