Originally working with batik in 1977, Australian Aboriginal artist Violet Petyarre delicately portrayed her Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming through complex lines and dotting drawn on silk textiles (National Gallery of Victoria Collection). In 1988 her works-on-canvas followed this style, which she produced alongside her sister Kathleen Petyarre and her Aunt, the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye. During the 1990s Violet Petyarre oeuvre shifted with her Body painting series which portrays a more structured composition: the essence of her Dreaming laid bare, stripped of adornment, powerfully evoking true abstract expressionism form. In 2007, Violet Petyarre continues artistic experimentation through the introduction of bold new colours, giving her celebrated works a bright new contemporary lustre. Violet Petyarre has firmly positioned herself as a major exponent of the ever-evolving Utopian and Australian contemporary art movements.