Janice Kngwarreye Clarke

Janice Kngwarreye Morton comes from a very large artistic family and is an exceptional sculptor of wooden artefacts. She lives on Utopia with her family. Her  Dreamings include Alpeyt (Wild Flowers), Rainbow Dreaming (Mpwelarr), Ilyarn, Ilyarnayt, Tharrkarr (Sweet Honey Grevillea) and Yerramp (Honey Ant).

Janice has been painting and making wood sculptures since early 1980s. Her work is usually extremely refined with intricate dot and brush work. She paints detailed studies of bush flowers, camp stories and designs associated with the stories from her country.

Rainbow (Mpwelarr) Dreaming

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. 

Exhibitions:

• 2007 - Patterns of Power, Art from the Eastern Desert, Simmer on the Bay, Sydney
• 2007 - Eastern Desert Dreaming, Artists from Utopia, GalleryG, Brisbane
• 2008 - Power of Place, Tandanya: National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc., Adelaide
• 2011 - Utopian Aboriginal Art, Without Pier Art Gallery, Melbourne
• 2011 - Desert Visions, Prairie Hotel, Parachilna, South Australia
• 2014 - Indigenous Group Show, Without Pier Art Gallery, Melbourne
• 2017 - Prairie Hotel, Parachilna, South Australia 
• 2018 - Indigenous Group Show, Without Pier Art Gallery, Melbourne
• 2019 - Prairie Hotel, Parachilna, South Australia