Roxanne was born in 1986 in Alice Springs. Her father’s country is northeast of Harts Range at Irrelirre Outstation. That is where Petrick spent most of her time growing up. She says in that country there are lots of hills, lots of kangaroos, porcupines, goanna, perentie and emu. All this food meant it was good country for hunting. Petrick said it was a happy place to grow up. She went every day on the bus from Irrelirre to the school at Harts Range. One day Petrick came to Alice Springs for a sports weekend and met her husband, Cornelius Ebatarinja. Now they live together at Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp where her husband’s family has always lived. Petrick started coming to the art room in 2015 when her husband started work as an Artworker at the Art Centre. Now she says she loves sewing and loves the bright colours of the wool and cottons; they give her lots of ideas for what she will make. Sewing, she says, gives her time to have a break from children and other busy things.

ROXANNE PETRICK

Born 1986

Language Arrernte & Luritja

Region Western / Central Desert

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • 'Yarrenyty Arltere Artists', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2023

  • 'Our Beautiful Home Mparntwe Alice Springs', Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
  • 'Portrait23', National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

2022

  • 'Werte Canberra!', Beaver Galleries, Canberra
  • 'Celebrate with Us How Much We Love to Make Art!', Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
  • 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

2021

  • 'Nurna Yaarna Iltjerrama. Nurna Kutatha Mpaarama! (‘We can’t rest. We always/continue to make!)', Jam Factory as part of Tarnanthi 2021, Adelaide
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • 'We belong to this country, we look after this country', Short Street Gallery, Broome
  • 'Looking back, Looking Forward: 21 Years of the Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre', Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Salon des Refuses, Darwin

2020

  • 'Trudy Said Mwerre!', Outstation Gallery, Darwin

2019

  • 'Nwenthe Pmere Mparntwe Renye Mape Lheme Kwatye Laye Werne: We are from the centre, travelling to the ocean', Short St Gallery, Broome
  • 'We Are Always Making Something From What We Have Salon', Arts Projects, Darwin
  • Tangentyere Christmas Show
  • Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art – Art Gallery of South Australia
  • 'Looking for Pmara (Home)', Merricks General Store Gallery
  • Desert Mob Exhibition, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
  • Salon des Refuses, Darwin

2018

  • 'Tjina Mob', Tangentyere Artists Gallery, Alice SpringS
  • Yarrenyty Arltere Artists Group Exhibition, EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • EDWINA CORLETTE, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
  • 'Women Telling Stories Arelhe Altyerre Ileme', Short St Gallery, Broome
  • Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • 'We use our Kapurta (heads) for looking after things', Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
  • 'Works On Paper', Tangentyere Artists Gallery, Alice Springs

2017

  • 'Wynscreen moving picture project', Wynyard Station Sydney: in collaboration with Cultural Capital, NSW Transport and Leonardo Ortega
  • National Gallery of Victoria Design Triennial: In collaboration with Estudio Campana Elbow workshop and National Gallery of Victoria
  • Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
  • Arrweketye Mape Awethe Akine – Tangentyere Artists Gallery (Women Back Together Again)
  • 'Together Our Stories Are Stronger', Merricks General Store, Victoria
  • 'Creature Collection', Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
  • 'Where worlds come together', Nomad, Darwin

2016

  • 'Deck the Walls', Tangentyere Artists Gallery, Alice Springs
  • 'Drawing from the Inside', Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
  • Salon Des Refuses, Darwin
  • 'Arrweketye Mob: Women Mob', Tangentyere Artists Gallery, Alice Springs
  • 'Avatar', RAFT Art Space, Alice Springs
  • 'From our heads and our hands: stories told with colour', Red Dot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
  • 'Outsider Art Fair', Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, New York

AWARDS

2021

  • Finalist National Indigenous Fashion Awards, Darwin

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Australia, 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, Canberra

Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs

Art Gallery of South Australia Film Work

The Worlds We Stitch Together

10 – 30 April 2024
‘Yarrenyty Arltere Artists’ featuring Rhonda Sharpe, Marlene Rubuntja, Roxanne Petrick, Louise Robertson, Beth Ebatarinja, Trudy Raggett

12 – 15 September 2019
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR - JOHN BOKOR, ELIZA GOSSE, TARA MARYNOWSKY, SALLY M NANGALA MULDA, YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS

27 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS