Anna Petyarre commenced painting in the early 1980s when the medium of canvas and acrylic paints was introduced to the Utopia region. Prior to painting she produced silk batik’s with the Utopia batik group. Her main Dreamings, which she depicts in her paintings are Bush Yam,Wild Potato and Sandhills which are associated with the dreamings from Alhalkere country.
AWARDS:

1998 Selected entrant for the 15th NATSIAA Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts AWARD exhibition.
Collections:

National Gallery of Australia Canberra; Artbank Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Victorian Art Centre Melbourne; Anthropology Art Museum Perth; Holmes a Court Collection, Perth; private and corporate collections in USA, Germany, Denmark, Poland and Italy.
Selected exhibitions:

1996 “Utopia Dreaming”, Soho Gallery, Sydney; 1997 Dacou Gallery, Adelaide; 1997 Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; 1998 Quadrivium Gallery, Sydney; 1998 Selected entrant for the 15th NATSIAA; 1999 Tandanya, Adelaide; 1999 BMG Art, Adelaide; 2000 Tandanya, Adelaide; 2000 Dacou (in association with AMP), Mary Place Gallery, Sydney; 2001 “Women’s Business”, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chigaco, USA; 2001 Japingka Gallery, Perth; 2001 Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin; 2002 Galerie Le Temps du Reve, France; 2002 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; 2002 Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne.