Jessie Pitjara Hunter

Dreaming: Alyawerre country, sugar bag body design.

Jessie Pitjara Hunter was born in 1957 at MacDonald Downs and is the sister of renowned artists Sandy, Annie and Susan. Jessie paints intricate designs consisting of many fine dots woven together that represent her country and her dreaming.

Collections:

Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands.

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.

The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.

Exhibitions:

1985 ‘The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition’, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

1989 ‘A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art’, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne.

1989 Design Warehouse Sydney [through Lauraine Diggins Fine Art];

1989 ‘Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project’, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

1990 ‘Utopia - A Picture Story’, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland.

2005 ‘Black Ink: Indigenous Prints from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.

2007 ‘Desert Diversity’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

2007 ‘Standing on Ceremony’, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.

2006-8 Permanent Collection, Dacou Gallery, Adelaide.

2008 ‘Utopia Discoveries’, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.

2008 ‘EWB Elements’, Engineers Without Borders travelilng exhibition to major cities in Australia in conjunction with Dacou and Dreamtime Elements.