sentences:  I love to make the painting like it’s moving, travelling, but it’s still our body painting, still our ceremony.”
  
  From about 2003–2004, Petyarre's style became bolder, with clusters of larger dots and stronger lines alongside the very fine textures for which the artist is known.While this style was decried in some quarters as being less refined, it has also been hailed as a logical artistic development towards a more powerful and dramatic mode of expression, "perhaps more abstract, certainly more modern in its technicality and presentation” (text Gallerie Australis, Adelaide).Petyarre's rise to international recognition began at the "Aboriginal Art from Utopia" exhibition at the Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne on 31 October 1989.