Malpiya Davey, also known as Irpintiri Davey, is an Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal art, artist from Pukatja, South Australia, Pukatja, South Australia. She is best known for her Pottery, ceramic artworks, but she also does painting, printmaking and weaving. Davey works for Ernabella Arts, the community arts co-operative in Pukatja. Ernabella Arts opened a ceramic studio in 2003, and Malpiya has since become one of its most prolific artists. She specialises in ceramic sgraffito.
Malpiya is Pitjantjatjara. Her parents’ Homeland, country is to the west of Pukatja between Watarru, South Australia, Watarru and Iltur, South Australia, Iltur, close to the border with Western Australia. She decorates the ceramic with Ceramic glaze, glazed or painted designs. Her designs depict various traditional Bushfood, bush foods from her family's country, such as ' (desert raisins), ' (quandong) and ' (wild figs). These are the subject of many of her sgraffito pieces.
Malpiya's ceramic work has been shown in several major Art exhibition, exhibitions around Australia, including at Flinders University,
Cudgegong Gallery,
Strathnairn Homestead, Australian Capital Territory, Strathnairn Homestead Gallery,
and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
It was also featured twice at the annual Desert Mob exhibition in Alice Springs, in 2003 and 2004.
Examples are held in the permanent collections of the Grafton Regional Gallery in New South Wales,
the Art Gallery of South Australia,
and the National Gallery of Australia.
The National Museum of Australia also contains examples of Malpiya's screen printing, screen prints.
References
External links
Malpiya Daveyat ''Prints and Printmaking''
Living people
Artists from South Australia
Pitjantjatjara people
Australian ceramicists
Australian painters
Australian printmakers
Australian weavers
Women textile artists
Australian women printmakers
Australian women painters
Australian women ceramicists
Australian Aboriginal artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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