Mary Young Perrurle
- Skin Name:Perrurle
- Language:Eastern Arrernte
- Region:Santa Teresa, Central Australia
- Dreaming:Snake & Rain
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Biography
Marie Young Perrurle was born in 1962 and comes from Santa Teresa Community approximately 1 hour from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She is an extraordinarily talented artist along with her siblings Johnny, Camilla and Leonie who are either painters or in Johnny's case a bush toy maker. Marie as well as her siblings have all participated in group exhibitions and have their art added to fine art collections both private and public within Australia and overseas. Marie has been working with Keringke Arts since 1995 and Central Art is excited to showcase some of her decorated plates.
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Exhibitions
- 1996 National Fringe 96, Inbarendi Fringe Gallery, Adelaide
- 1996 Alice Craft Acquisition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
- 1996 Central Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
- 1996 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- 1996 Arm Load of Art Exhibition, Woods St Gallery, Darwin
- 1996 Anwernekenhe Tyepetye – Telling Our Story, Rainbow Serpent Gallery, Sydney
- 1997 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- 1997 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
- 1998 Designs of the Desert, Hogarth Galleries Aboriginal Arts Centre, Sydney
- 1998 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
- 2004 Desert Mob Show, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs
- 2004 True Blue, Framed Gallery, Darwin
- 2005 Jungara Aboriginal Art Gallery, Cairns and Port Douglas
- 2005 Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria
- 2005 Tuggeranong Art Gallery, Canberra
- 2005 Aboriginal and Tribal Art Gallery, Sydney
- 2005 Desert Mob Show, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs
- 2006 Jungara Aboriginal Art Gallery, Cairns
- 2006 Bundara Aboriginal Art Gallery, Port Douglas
- 2006 Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria
- 2006 Gallery Gondwana, Divas of the Desert, Alice Springs
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Awards
- 1997, Painting commissioned for reproduction on designer rugs by Dreamwear Concepts.
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