Ada Petyarre Bird b. c.1930

  • Artist
Anmatyerre artist and a senior woman in Utopia, Bird's batiks and canvases are held in major collections in Australia and overseas. She is featured in a film by director Wim Wenders, and her work is on the cover of the publication, "Utopia -A Picture Story" (1990).
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Citations

  • Powerhouse Museum, ''Atnankere Awely 2’, textile by Ada Bird Petyarre’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/164584

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’96/40/2 Textile length, canting and cap batik, silk twill, bush banana, honey grevillia, bush tomato, bush flower design, Ada Bird Petyarre, Utopia Awely Batik Workshop, Utopia, Northern Territory, 1995’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/153550

  • Brody, A. (1990), 'Utopia – A Picture Story’, Heytesbury Holdings, Perth.

  • Boulter, M. (1991), 'The Art of Utopia’, Craftsman House.

  • Information sourced from Hodges, Chris.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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Related collections
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia (collected in)