Artetyerre Etching by Billy Benn Perrurle BB-4

This lovely limited edition etching titled "Artetyerre" by Billy Benn is a depiction from memory of his country, Harts Range. Billy's paintings cover a wide scope of style, born of his own lack of preciousness, his vivid imagination and colour, texture and material experimentation strategies – rather than the study of other painterly influences. One sees hints of Turner, Cezanne, Van Gogh and the Orientalists within his work, yet these were images never seen by Billy yet Billy remarks only on Albert Namatjira being a great painter.

Billy's artwork is highly acclaimed and he is in all major state collections.

Limited Edition: 20, Medium: Etching with Chine Collé, Image Size: 19.5 x 12.5 cm, Paper size: 38.5 x 26.5 cm

'My country is Artetyerre, Harts Range, south and east Arrernte. My country painting. My country is Dreaming Antenhe (possum). My Dreaming corroborree. My Dreaming goes to Alcunpa, to another people's country, north-east from Utopia.'
— Billy Benn Perrurle. Source: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory