Honey Ant Dreaming
Audrey Kngwarreye Morton
About Artwork
Code: EDA-AM1825/19
Artist: Audrey Kngwarreye Morton
Region: Rocket Range
Medium: Polymer acrylic on canvas
Size: 59cm x 63cm
Artist Information
Audrey paints many subjects including Sweet Honey Grevillea (Tharrkarr), Alpeyt (Acacia flowers) and Awelye body designs from Antarrengeny which is her mother's country.
Rainbow (Mpwelarr) Dreaming: The colours of the rainbow are mimicked in the bright, modern colours that Audrey uses in her paintings. Rainbow Dreaming is associated with ceremonies ensuring the fertility of species is capable on the one hand of bringing much needed water but also of causing wild and violent storms. The Rainbow Spirit comes to life in the form of a rainbow at the end of the storm. In her paintings, Audrey Kngwarreye Morton depicts the colourful patterns of the body of the Spirit.
Her honey ant paintings are characterised by an aerial perspective of the hundreds of bloated patterned bellies of the honey ants. (Yerramp) Dreaming: The Honey Ant is considered a delicacy by the Utopian women. The women search the country for the nests of honey ants and then dig holes to extract them. They collect the ants in their coolamons. In her paintings, Audrey Morton depicts the various nests of the honey ants.
NOTE: Honey ants, sometimes called honeypot ants, are found in arid areas of Australia. These honey ants have gorged on nectar, their abdomens swelled to the size of grapes. During droughts and dry seasons, these living larders regurgitate the nutrient-rich nectar for their fellow workers.
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Eastern Desert Art is a member of the Indigenous Art Code of Conduct and the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia and sells directly to collectors and galleries nationally and internationally.
To demonstrate provenance, artworks are sold with an Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct Certificate. These Certificates provide the purchaser with information on the artist, the story of their painting (when permitted by the artist under cultural law) and photographs of the artists with their paintings. The artworks are painted on prepared Belgian linen using polymer acrylics.
The local Alyawarre and Anmatyerre artists prepare and work on their paintings at the Eastern Desert art shed located on our property adjacent to Utopia.
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