Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Paintings and Prints from the Thomas Vroom Collection

7 State of My Country, 1994, screenprint, edition 46/99, signed lower right, 35 x 61cm PROVENANCE Published by Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory The Thomas Vroom Collection This screenprint is taken from the celebrated 1990 painting on canvas, State of My Country, from the Holt Collection.

“Whole lot, that’s whole lot. Awelye (my Dreaming), Arlatyeye (pencil yam), Arkerrthe (mountain devil lizard), Ntange (grass seed), Tingu (a Dreamtime pup), Ankerre (emu), Intekwe (a favourite food of emus, a small plant), Atnwerle (green bean), and Kame (yam seed). That’s what I paint: Whole lot” M. Boulter, The Art of Utopia: A New Direction in Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, Sydney, 1991, p61 State of My Country is featured on the wrap around cover of the first monograph of the artist by Jennifer Isaacs, Emily Kame Kngwarreye Paintings, Craftsman House, New South Wales, 1998, p.22, illus. pl.13, pp.31, 58-9 and cover. © Emily Kame Kngwarreye/Licensed by Viscopy, 2016