Skin: Kngwarrey (also known as Ngwarrai)
Region: Rocket Range, Utopia, Northern Territory
Dreaming: Wild Flowers (Alpeyt), Women's Ceremony (Awelye), Rainbow (Mpwelarr)
Born in 1964, Hazel Kngwarrey Morton is the daughter of Katie Kemarre and comes from a large extended family of artists.
She first became involved in the Aboriginal contemporary art movement in the 1980’s through her involvement with the community project titled “Utopia – A Picture Story”. This workshop used silk batiks as a medium and along with 80 other women from Utopia the project was a huge success and was acquired in full by the prestigious Homes a Court Collection. The collection held many travelling exhibitions around Australia and overseas. Hazel’s batik depicted wild tobacco.
Hazel also took part in the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association project, titled “A Summer Project”, which introduced the women of Utopia to canvas and acrylic paints. The subject of her artwork was wildflowers or Alpeyt and her Dreamings – Awelye (women’s business) as well as Mpwelarr or rainbow.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
2014 - Narrativa Herióca - Pintura Aborígine do Deserto Australiano - Renaissance Hotel, São Paulo, Brazil
2014 - Arca Urbana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2007 - A Brush with Art, Eastern Desert Art Songs, Prairie Hotel, Parachilna
2005 - From little things, big things grow, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1994 - Tyerabarrbowaryaou 2, I shall never become a Whiteman, 5th Havana Biennial, Cuba, & Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1993/4 - ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark.
1991 - The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1990 - Utopia - A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland.
1989 - Utopia Women's Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
