Week 7

Mondo Rondo Utopia Collection

The Utopia collection features the artists Minni Pwerle, Gloria Petyarr and Barbara Weir who are from the Utopia region, 240km North East of Alice Springs. As the other collection, all pieces are handmade by Mondo Rondo and have the artists name and art work name engraved on the back. 

The Utopia collection has a more contemporary feel utilising both black and white and colour.

Gloria Petyarr

Utilising both colour and black and white, Gloria has created flowing designs using a seed style shape. Each piece has a mind of its own leads you around the page and describes a particular plant that is used in bush medicine

Minnie Pwerle

Likewise, Minnie has explored both black and white and coloured pieces that showcase her unique contemporary feel with a high contrast. Both circles and lines are used also showing a 

directional downward flow. 

Barbara Weir

Using a more muted colour palette, Barbara uses lines to depict grass seed. The yellow highlights create hierarchy and the starting point which the flow moves from. 

As a whole, the collection is quite contemporary compared to the Warlukurlangu Collection. The style presented by each artists is different by works together to compliment each other within this collection.

This would have to be one of my prefered styles of Aboriginal Art as it is something that can be worn in a contemporary context and can match various styles.