Mary Morton Art for Sale at Auction

Sculptor, Water color painter, b. 1931 - d. 2016

Mary Morton was involved in the batik movement established at Utopia in the late 1970’s. Today, Mary is a well known Utopia artist, painting her Dreamtime stories and her country, Antarrengeny. She still lives in the Utopia region with her large extended family and with her bright and bubbly personality.
Collections

Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Holmes á Court Collection, Perth
Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Group Exhibitions

1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings, the First Works On Canvas, A Summer Project, 1988-89, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1990 Utopia- A Picture Story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Robert Holmes á Court Collection by Utopia Artists which toured Eire and Scotland.

1990 Stanislawsk-Birnberg Margo, Journeylines©

1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and
Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1991 Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition, Art Gallery of N.S.W, Sydney

1993 The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1994 Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2002 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville TN; 'The Cove Gallery' Portland OR; Urban Wine Works, Portland OR; Mary's Woods, Portland OR
2003 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: New City Merchants, Knoxville
TN; Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville TN; 'The Cove Gallery', Portland
OR; Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Event, Umpqua Bank, Portland OR; Mary's Woods, Portland OR; Art
From The Dreamtime, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR

2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions; Greenwich, Connecticut

2004-2006 Evolution of Utopia, Mbantua Gallery Cultural Museum, Alice
Springs, N.T, opened by the Honorable Robert Hill

2005 ‘Small Wonders’, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T
Further References

Brody, A, 1989, Utopia Women’s Paintings: the First Work on Canvas, A Summer Project 1988-89., cat., Heytesbury Holdings, Perth

Brody, A., 1990, Utopia: a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes á Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd, Perth

NATSIVAD Data Base

Isaacs J, 1999, Spirit Country, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books ©1999

Desart the Aboriginal art centres of Central Australia, 2000, Putting in the Colour – Contemporary Aboriginal Textiles, Jukurrpa Books (IAD Press) ©2000