THE HICKS COLLECTION: EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY | New York
21 November 2024 – 10 January 2025
About Exhibition
We are delighted to announce our next New York exhibition, The Hicks Collection: EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY, an extraordinary private collection of eleven significant paintings by Australia's most celebrated contemporary artist.
Meticulously assembled under the guidance of renowned Australian gallerist William Mora, each work was selected for its exceptional quality, impeccable provenance, and to represent the distinct phases of Emily’s oeuvre in her short, yet remarkable career as an artist.
An elderly Indigenous Australian woman who rarely left the boundaries of her ancestral Country in the arid Western Desert, Emily was indifferent to Western art traditions and political or social issues. Yet, from 1989 to her death in 1996, she was an outstanding abstract painter who had critics question the relationship between Modernism and Central Desert painting.
Emily’s work was first shown internationally at the 47th Biennale di Venezia in 1997 and since then, her work has gained immense critical stature within the broader context of contemporary painting.
In 2023, D'Lan Contemporary presented Emily's work in a solo exhibition at Frieze Masters, London and in the same year, the National Gallery of Australia staged a major retrospective of her work, which will open at Tate Modern, London in July 2025.
It is an honour for D'Lan Contemporary to present this, one of the most important collections of Emily Kam Kngwarray's work to remain in private hands today, for sale in New York.
If you wish to register your interest in acquiring the collection, please contact Director + Founder, D'Lan Davidson, to do so at dlan@dlancontemporary.com.au