Artists that inspire me

Posted by William Thomas • 1 week ago

A black and white photo of a black woman kneeling in the desert. She has her hands crossed on her lap and is wearing a head scarf.

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Photograph of a landscape with the horizon line about a quarter up the page. There is a blue sky with white clouds. Grass and scrub are in the foreground with two small trees coming half way up the image on the right half and a large tree with a thin golden trunk and a few sparse branches and tufts of green leaves almost as tall as the whole image.

Emily Kam Kngwarray lived in Australia

White text in capitals spell out the name EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY horizontally in line just above the middle of the images. In the background is a painting made of lines of bigger and smaller yellow, brown, white, cream and black dots.
A large long rectangular canvas on a white wall. The top of a person's head and wheel chair in the bottom right corner. The painting has a black background with a mass of layers of orange, pink, red and yellow lines of similar thickness, weaving in and out of each other like a mass of wool.

Emily Kam Kngwarray

A photograph of lot‘s of long rectangular paintings hanging portrait from the ceiling in two rows one in front of the other in an exhibition space. There are more paintings on the white walls and people looking at the work. The paintings are two colours. One in the background and one on top. The top layer is abstract shapes and lines that together create a surface texture which spreads across the surface of the painting.

Emily Kam Kngwarray

A rectangular painting hung a portrait on a white wall. The painting has an orange background and is covered in white, yellow orange dots in lines and curves. Some are on painted lines and all the dots are around the same size.

Emily Kam Kngwarray

Square watercolour painting on a board. White border with yellow and orange background with thick oblong black marks in a diagonal pattern from top left hand corner to bottom right across the page. Smaller red and white marks follow the same pattern.

I was inspired to do this piece of art work when I visited Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at Tate modern

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