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Our dynamic artists are from the Utopia region, a large remote area of Central Australia with no government funded art centre. It has one of the richest art histories and is strongly female led.
Polly Ngale Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
1989 Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1990 'Utopia - A Picture Story,' an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by which toured Eire and Scotland
2000 Arts d’Australie, Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris; Arts d’Australie, Stephane Jacob / Air France, Paris
2002 Two Sisters: Kathleen and Polly Ngale, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2007 Visions of Utopia, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
2007 Journeys and Dreams, Gecko Gallery, Broome
2008 Emily and Her Legacy, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo in conjunction with Utopia – the Genius of Emily Kngwarreye at the National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Utopia Revisited, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Dreamings – the Land, Outback Aboriginal Art, Caulfield
2010 Anwekety Paintings, Mbantua Gallery & Cultural Museum, Alice Springs
2014 Dot Code: Desert Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2015 Sixteen Artists – 16 x 2, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2015 Desert Dots, Utopia Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Desert Dots II, Utopia Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d’Australie, Stéphane Jacob, Grand-Palais, Paris
2018 Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, me Collectors Room, Berlin
2019 Women of Influence, Utopia Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Polly Ngale | Arnwetky, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Polly Ngale and Charmaine Pwerle, Harvey Galleries, Mosman
2019 Desert Dots IV, Utopia Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Women in Colour, Cooee Art, Sydney
2020 Polly and Kathleen Ngale: Bush Plum Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2021 Ngale Sisters, Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Polly, Utopia Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Collections
Art Gallery of NSW
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
The Mbantua Collection, Alice Springs
The World Bank, Washington USA
FURTHER REFERENCES
Brody, A., 1989, Utopia Women's Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth. ©
Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth. ©
Aboriginal Artists Dictionary of Biographies - Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region, written by Janusz B.Kreczmanski & Margo Birnberg
