Anna Price Petyarre

Anna Price Petyarre is one of Utopia’s high profile artists who has been exhibited extensively around the globe for close to 30 years. Since the early 00’s, her most sought after style has been fine dot depictions of country, often with intricate strings of dots depicting sand hills on a red ochre or black canvas.

Other markings and symbolism find their way into these dot paintings making each one significantly unique, despite each depicting an aerial view of Anna’s country, Alhalkere.

An Anmatyerre woman, Anna was born in 1960 to a woman named Glory Ngale (now deceased) who was a well known name in Utopia art during the 1990's. Anna has three adult children of her own, to her late husband Colin Price of Utopia. 

In the early days of the Utopia art movement, Anna primarily painted body paint designs and designs that represented elements of the Yam Seed Dreaming.

The seed of the pencil yam is one of its most important attributes. This seed is called kame, most famously recognised as the bush name of Emily Kame Kngwarreye.