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Hazel Kngwarreye Morton
1964
Hazel Morton Kngwarreye was born in 1963 and is the daughter of Kathleen Kemara Morton, who was the second wife of well known western desert artist Billy Stockman Pitjara. Hazel comes from the Utopia region in Central Australia and is from the Alywarre language group from Ngkwarlerlaneme country.
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.
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