Kudditji Kngwarreye

Kudditji was born in the 1925s northeast of Alice Springs in Alhalkere, a few kilometers from Utopia. He died in 2015. For a long time he lived the existence of the Aborigines of his generation, working as a stockman, guiding herds in the wilderness on paths he knows well, following and crossing multiple dream trails, invisible to the foreign eye. Kudditji has long remained in the shadow of his sister, the incredible Emily Kame Kngwarreye, famous for having abandoned dot painting. In 1986, Kudditji in turn ventured into painting. His first paintings, telling the dream of the Emu, used classic symbolism and earth colors. Integrating into the movement of recognition of the aborigines and land restitutions, he seeks to translate the whole dreamlike universe contained by years of imposed silence. In 2003, Kudditji took another path: that of large brush dots which gradually became solid colors. From now on his paintings entitled "My Country" seeks to restore the colors of the desert. His creations, so far removed from traditional pointillism, are the originality of Kudditji Kngwarreye's work, helping to increase his reputation in Australia and internationally.