Anna Pitjara (Petyarre) b. 1965

Anna Pitjara is an Anmatyerre artist from Utopia, an Indigenous homelands region of the Northern Territory, some 240km north-east of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). She is the daughter of the late Glory Ngarla and niece to the late, great artist, Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Anna learned to paint under the tutelage of one of the most significant Aboriginal artists, Gloria Petyarre (deceased).

When Anna first started painting, she used a large brush to create sweeping strokes across the canvas indicative of her plant totem, the Yam. Over her long career she has had many stylistic outputs, all reflecting aspects of her culture - but it is her meticulously painted black and white artworks that have garnered much acclaim. In these paintings, Anna perfectly places small white dots to depict the sand hills, salt lakes and waterholes of her country from an aerial point of view. Anna is widely celebrated for these visual rhythms; and all through the repetition of a single dot. 

Anna is a sought-after artist and highly regarded due to her intricate and contemporary painting style. Anna has been widely exhibited and her artwork is held in esteemed collections worldwide.