Emily Kam Kngwarray’s First European Retrospective to Open This Summer

In a photograph from 1994, the Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray sits cross-legged on the ground wearing a purple sweater and a black beanie. Though the canvas stretching out before her is enormous, she is absorbed in a small section, carefully dabbing at the material with a long brush dipped in yellow paint. Kngwarray’s deep concentration in this image embodies the care she poured into all her work. “No gestural mark was ever a mistake,” says Kelli Cole, a curator of Abori