SPRING YAM FLOWERS, 1992
EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
synthetic polymer paint on linen
122.5 x 90.0 cm
inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Delmore Gallery cat. 92I154
Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs
The Holt Collection, Northern Territory
Private collection, Melbourne
Isaacs, J., Smith, T., Ryan, J., Holt, D., and Holt, J., Emily Kame Kngwarreye Paintings, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1998, p. 93, pl. 29 (illus.)
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Delmore Gallery.
The significance of this work by Emily Kame Kngwarreye rests in the context of the artist's development during 1992. The lineal foundation of the yam structure has emerged with an upfront and wonderfully loose-gestured hand. Emily has freed-up the deliberate and sometimes awkward yam structure that underpinned her earlier layered works and produces a playful burst of the yam 'increase centre'. Its power that is displayed on the earth surface using a daring fluoro pink and cream palette. It was an exciting day in September 1992 when this canvas was painted, and as such, it beautifully heralds her later exceptional yam lined works produced at Delmore.
JANET HOLT