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Liz Hobday

Kngwarray masterpieces on show at National Gallery

The exhibition includes a seminal artwork acquired by the NGA, the 1994 painting Untitled (awely). (HANDOUT/NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA)

In the eight years Emily Kam Kngwarray spent working on canvas, she became one of the most significant painters of the 20th century.

A wideranging show at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, opening on Saturday, celebrates her work across six exhibition rooms, with early batiks from 1977 to paintings made before her death in 1996.

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