Emily Kam Kngwarray: The Turning Season surveys the career of the Anmatyerr Elder and custodian of Alhalker, from batik works of the early 1980s through her final canvases of the mid-1990s. Rooted in the Dreaming — a lived worldview in which ancestral creation stories animate land, people, and time — Kngwarray's paintings embody rather than depict the rhythms of her Country. The rhizomatic paths of the pencil yam, whose seeds give the artist her middle name, animate her iconic dot compositions; colors shift with the seasons, subdued in dry periods and vivid after rain. In fewer than a decade of painting on canvas, she produced some 3,000 works.
