Overview

• The Tate Modern exhibition runs from July 10 to January 11, 2026, showcasing more than 70 works from early Utopia batiks to her final acrylic paintings
• Co-organized with the National Gallery of Australia, the show is advertised across London’s Tube network to draw thousands of visitors
• A newly unearthed 1996 letter from Nicholas Serota shows that Tate rejected Indigenous art as inappropriate in stark contrast to its current embrace
• Curators incorporate a film of an Awely ceremony alongside detailed wall texts to present her paintings through the lens of her role as an Anmatyerr matriarch
• After she began painting in her 70s, Kngwarray created roughly 3,000 works in eight years which now command millions at auction