Ronnie Price

COMMUNITY: UTOPIA, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA
LANGUAGE: ANMATYERRE
1938 - 2006

Kangaroo Dreaming RRG52003 82x139cm-2005
 
Ronnie Price Mpetyane was born c. 1938 as an Anmatyerre speaker. His ancestral country was Lyentye [Mosquito Bore] community in Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

In 1989 he began painting artworks which typically depicted Men’s Ceremonial Life, including Kangaroo and Bronzewing Pigeon Dreamings. Utopia men’s paintings are known to be strong and notable for their more formal qualities based on ceremonial designs. Although Ronnie’s art always explored and combined vibrant and vivid colours, his artworks remained either stylized within the traditional dot format or as neo-western landscapes.

Until his passing in 2006, Ronnie was an ordained pastor and husband to well known Utopia artist ‘Gloria Tamarre Petyarre’. These two artists lived together at Mulga Bore [Akaye Soakage] in Utopia and produced beautiful artworks. Ronnie Price Mpetyane was a unique artist and his distinctive artworks preserve Aboriginal heritage and culture.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS:
Anmatyerre Men, Walkabout Gallery, Leichhardt
redrock gallery, Group Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia.
Sherman Galleries, Group Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
Fireworks Gallery, Group Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia.
June 2007redrock gallery, Group Exhibition, Gallery Grand Opening Beijing, P.R China
July 2007 redrock gallery, Group Exhibition China World Exhibition Centre, Beijing P.R China
Aug 2007 redrock gallery, Group Exhibition, Grand Hyatt Hotel,Beijing, P.R China
Nov 2007 redrock gallery, Group Exhibition, Internation Art Expo, Beijing, P.R China 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Mbantua Gallery, Northern Territory
• Mem Aziz Collection, Melbourne

 
Kangaroo Dreaming RRG 379 - 89x123cm 2004

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