Roxanne Petrick

Roxanne Petrick is an artist with Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. Roxanne was born in Alice Springs. Her father’s country is north east of Harts Range at Irrelirre Outstation. That’s where Roxanne spent most of her time growing up. She says in that country there are lots of hills, lots of kangaroo, porcupine, goanna, perentie and emu. All this food meant it was good country for hunting. Roxanne went everyday on the bus from Irrelirre to the school at Harts Range. One day she came to Alice Springs for a sports weekend and met her husband. Now they live together at Larapinta Valley Town Camp where her husband’s family has always lived. Roxanne started coming to the art room in 2015 when her husband started work at the learning centre. Now she comes every day to sew. She says she loves the bright colours of the wool and cottons; they give her lots of ideas.

Yarrenyty Arltere Artists deliver arts activities within Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp through Tangentyere Artists, the Aboriginal Art Centre delivering arts activities, skills development, support and representation to Alice Springs Town Camp Artists. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists create hand dyed and hand embroidered soft sculptures, unique hand embroidered blanket jewellery, and and cyano-type dyed silk scarves, along with prints on paper. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists are constantly exploring creative ways to communicate their sense of identity, and their sense of place in the world with their audience.

Group Exhibition
2017 Creature Collection Hugo Michell Gallery Adelaide
2017 Where worlds come together Nomad Gallery Darwin
2016 Drawing from the Inside Aboriginal and Pacific Art Sydney
2016 Desert Mob Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs
2016 Salon Des Refuses Darwin
2016 Adorned Outstation Gallery Darwin
2016 Arrweketye Mob: Women Mob Tangentyere Artists Gallery Alice
2016 Avatar RAFT Artspace Alice Springs
2016 From our heads and our hands: stories told with colour
Red Dot Fine Art Gallery Singapore
2016 Outsider Art Fair Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery New York

Public Collections
2016 Art Gallery of South Australia