Selina Teece Pwerle - Antarrengeny - My Country

SELINA TEECE PWERLE Antarrengeny – My Country

SELINA TEECE PWERLE Antarrengeny – My Country

Front: Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 150 x 120cm (detail).

Left: Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 150 x 90cm.

MARCH 19 - APRIL 6, 2021

Text © Susan McCulloch Design © Lisa Reidy Images © The artists Published by Everywhen Artspace

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SELINA TEECE PWERLE

Born in 1977 in her traditional country of Antarrengeny in the heart of Alywarre lands of the Ampilwataja/Utopia region of Central Australia, Selina Teece Pwerle grew up amongst some of Australia’s most famous Aboriginal artists.

These included the award-winning Gloria Petyarre and the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, amongst many others. Although not directly related to these artists, due to the communal nature of Aboriginal art, Selina absorbed the practice of art making from a young age. Her mother Lulu Teece Pitjara is also a well-known artist.

Since she started painting in the early 2000s, Selina has developed her own unique styles to represent the plants and flowers of her region. She also paints her country after rain when it is blanketed with lush grasses and flowers. A favoured theme is the leaves of the spinifex plant as they move in the wind, while gum blossoms, outlined in delicate dots and lines are featured in others.

Selina’s luminous landscapes are of her father’s and grandfather’s country and that of her own birthplace – Antarrengeny. In brilliant colour and precise detail these expansive vistas depict the rivers, red earth, trees, flowers, hills and the ever-changing light of the outback with an intimacy born from Selina Teece Pwerle’s lifelong knowledge of her lands and that of her forebears who have lived on them for millennia.

Susan McCulloch OAM March 2021

Left: Selina Teece Pwerle, Courtesy the artist.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2021 Selina Teece Pwerle, Antarrengeny – My Country, Everywhen Artspace, Flinders, Vic 2021 Spirit & Energy, McCulloch & McCulloch/Salt Contemporary, Queenscliff, Vic 2021 Artists of Ampilatwatja, Michael Reid, Berlin

2020 Summer Collector’s Show, Everywhen Artspace, Flinders Vic

2012-2018 Whistlewood Gallery/McCulloch & McCulloch, Mornington Peninsula, Vic 2013-2021 Cultural Connections, Artitja Fine Arts, Fremantle WA

2015 ILF Fundraising exhibition, McCulloch & McCulloch, Sydney 2014 Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney

2012 Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle WA

2012 Country, Alpitye at Byron, Byron Bay NSW 2012 Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney NSW

2011 Mother and Daughters in Lore, Alpitye at Port, Port Macquarie 2011 Outback Art, Canberra ACT

2010 Mother and Daughter, Artitja Fine Arts, Fremantle WA 2010 Outback Art, Canberra ACT

2009 Alpitye At Port, Port Macquarie NSW 2009 Outback Art, Canberra ACT

2009 Desert Mob, Alice Springs NT

2009 Ancient Lands/Modern Landscapes, Booker- Lowe Gallery USA 2008 Alpitye At Byron, Byron Bay NSW

2008 Alpitye At Port, Port Macquarie NSW

2008 Cultural Connections, Desert Stories Artitja Fine Arts, Fremantle WA 2008 Outback Aboriginal Art, Melbourne VIC 2008 Outback Art, Canberra ACT

2007 Alpitye At Port, Port Macquarie NSW

2007 Cultural Connections, Desert Stories Artitja Fine Arts, Fremantle WA 2007 Outback Aboriginal Art, Melbourne VIC 2007 Outback Art, Canberra ACT 6

Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 150 x 90cm | MM5256 | $3900

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Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 150 x 70cm | MM5255 | $2900

Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100cm | MM5254 | $3500

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Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 120 x 150cm | MM5253 | $4900

Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 45 x 45cm | MM5238 | $750

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Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 90 x 70cm | MM5233 | $2900

Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 150 x 120cm | MM5232 | $6900

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Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 100 x 120cm | MM5231 | $4900

Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 45 x 70cm | MM5230 $1500

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Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, ac

crylic on linen, 150 x 213cm | MM5227 | $9900

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Antarrengeny – My Grandfather’s Country, acrylic on linen, 120 x 150cm | MM5216 | $6900

Alatyeyt – Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 180 x 100cm | MM5229 | $4900

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Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100cm | MM5228 | $3500

Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100cm | MM5225 | $3500

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Gum Blossom, acrylic on linen, 150 x 90cm | MM5223 | $3800

Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 150 x 90cm | MM5207 | $3800

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Red Gum Blossom, acrylic on linen, 100 x 70cm | MM5222 | $3200

Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 120 x 90cm | MM3939 | $3200

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Arlatyeyt – Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 120 x 100cm | MM2801 | $3200

Arlatyeyt – Spinifex Leaves, acrylic on linen, 180 x 70cm | MM2613 | $3200

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Directors Susan McCulloch OAM and Emily McCulloch Childs.

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