A brilliant artist whose life was rudely interrupted by colonisers
- Written by Christine Judith Nicholls, Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University

Kathleen Petyarre looking across Atnangker country, Northern Territory, December 2000. Photograph Ian North; courtesy Wakefield Press
The artist Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre (c. 1938 – 24 November 2018) has died in Alice Springs, surrounded by family and loved ones, at about the age of 80. Alhwarrpe.
“About” that age, because...