The great Australian artist who rose to fame in just a decade
The four-wheel drive lurches off the Sandover Highway 250 km north-east of Alice Springs in a region called Utopia, and starts to bump along a winding dirt track. Rough bushes thwack the vehicle’s sides and wide blue skies pour through the windscreen.
A short way along the track, a black granite headstone rises above wild grasses sprouting from soil that’s so red it’s almost purple. This is the grave of Emily Kam Kngwarray (pronounced “karma noom-WAH-ree”). Three paintbrushes are engraved on the headstone, with a simple dedication of her name and date of death – September 2, 1996.
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