Aboriginal Art from Australia

We currently have three pieces of aboriginal art on display at the Fair Trade Cafe. The painting above is acrylic on canvas and is called "Women's Ceremony". The artist, Katie Kemarre, was born 1943 and is from Antarrengeny, in the Utopia Region, NE of Alice Springs. Katie is a well known artist in Australia and participated in the "Utopia - A Picture Story Exhibition", a silk batik by 88 Utopian artists, which toured internationally. She generally paints using acrylic on canvas, but also does the occasional wood carving.

She has been exhibiting since 1989, not only throughout Australia but also in the USA. Her exhibitions in the U.S include Portland Oregon (The Cove Gallery; Urban Wine Works; Mary's Woods; Portland Art Museum), Knoxville, Tennessee (Art & Soul Gallery; New City Merchants) and also the Mbantua Gallery USA Exhibition in Portland, Nashville, Knoxville, Greenwich and New York in 2004.

These are very unique and interesting paintings - every one of them has a story to tell. Come by the Fair Trade Cafe and check them out for yourself!