THE HICKS COLLECTION: EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY | New York
21 November 2024 – 21 March 2025
About Exhibition
We are delighted to announce our next New York exhibition, The Hicks Collection: Eleven Exceptional Works By EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY, an extraordinary private collection of 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.
A revered Indigenous Australian elder who rarely left her ancestral Country, Emily was an innovative painter whose diverse and prolific output between 1989 and her death in 1996 prompted art historians, curators, and critics to question the relationship between International Modernism and Central Desert painting.
Emily’s work was first presented internationally at the Australian Pavilion of the 47th Biennale di Venezia in 1997 and since then has gained immense critical stature within the broader context of contemporary painting.
Twenty years later, her work returned to the Biennale di Venezia as a celebrated feature of All the World’s Futures, curated by the late Okwui Enwezor.
In 2021, D’Lan Contemporary partnered with Gagosian to present Emily’s first solo exhibition in Paris. Last year, D'Lan Contemporary presented a solo exhibition of Emily’s paintings at Frieze Masters, London — the first Indigenous Australian ever to be featured. Later in 2023, the National Gallery of Australia launch her third major retrospective, which will travel to Tate Modern, London in July 2025.
And, in June 2025, D'Lan Contemporary, in collaboration with Pace gallery, London, will present a solo exhibition of works by Emily Kam Kngwarray, complementing the retrospective at Tate Modern.
If you wish to register your interest in the collection, please contact Director + Founder, D'Lan Davidson, to do so at dlan@dlancontemporary.com.au
Works
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Bush Plum Country, 1989
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Bush Plum Country 1989
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
150 x 121.5 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. E059 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate collection, Melbourne acquired from the above
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999, and touring various venues throughout Victoria and New South Wales, June 1999 - April 2000
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, front cover (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Yam Story, 1989
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Yam Story 1989
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120 x 90 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. C044 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999; Hamilton Art Gallery, 4 June - 10 July 1999; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, 16 July - 22 August 1999; Wagga Wagga Gallery, 27 August - 19 September 1999; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 28 December 1999 - 2 February 2000; George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, 31 March - 30 April 2000
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999 (illus.) M. et al, Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Alhalkerre, Paintings from Utopia, Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery and Macmillan, 1998, pl. 25, P. 42 (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, The Anooralya Yam, 1990
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
The Anooralya Yam 1990
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
121 x 91 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. H017 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne acquired from the above
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999, and touring various venues throughout Victoria and New South Wales, June 1999 - April 2000
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999 (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Bush Tomato, 1990
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Bush Tomato 1990
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
121 x 91 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. ON15 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999, and touring various venues throughout Victoria and New South Wales, June 1999 - April 2000
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, (illus.)
USD 220,000
AVAILABLE
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Emu Country, 1991
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Emu Country 1991
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
151.5 x 121.5 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 1W49 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999 (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Of My Country, Alalgura, 1992
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Of My Country, Alalgura 1992
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
150 x 121 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 92H029 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999; Hamilton Art Gallery, 4 June - 10 July 1999; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, 16 July - 22 August 1999; Wagga Wagga Gallery, 27 August - 19 September 1999; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 28 December 1999 - 2 February 2000; George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, 31 March - 30 April 2000
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999 (illus.)
USD 350,000
AVAILABLE
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Emu Dreaming, 1995
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Emu Dreaming 1995
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
150 x 230 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 95D012 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Ian Hicks Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, 1 - 30 May 1999; Hamilton Art Gallery, 4 June - 10 July 1999; Swan Hill Regional Gallery, 16 July - 22 August 1999; Wagga Wagga Gallery, 27 August - 19 September 1999; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 28 December 1999 - 2 February 2000; George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, 31 March - 30 April 2000
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Body-Paint Lines, 1995
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Body-Paint Lines 1995
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
152 x 92 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 95J006A William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, front cover (illus.)
On Hold
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Awelye, 1995
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Awelye 1995
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
152 x 91 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 95I054 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Anooralya, 1995
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Anooralya 1995
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
152 x 91 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 95I092 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, (illus.)
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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Yam Story, 1996
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Yam Story 1996
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
152 x 91 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, cat. no. 96G007 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Corporate Collection, Melbourne
EXHIBITED
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 1 - 30 May 1999
LITERATURE
Of My Country: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, The Applied Chemicals Collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 1999, (illus.)
USD 550,000
AVAILABLE
Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled - Coolamon, circa 1992
Emily Kam Kngwarray,
Untitled - Coolamon circa 1992
synthetic polymer paint on carved wood
59 x 19 x 9 cm
PROVENANCE
The Artist Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory Corporate Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 1997
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