Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm The Role of Body Painting

The Role of Body Painting in Aboriginal Culture

familial affiliations

Her emergence as a painter coincided with a boom in Indigenous art sales

Ada's work was based solidly in symbols and the power and depth of meaning that they convey

north-east of Alice Springs

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm The Role of Body Painting4 Sisters, Minnie, Galya Emily and Molly painting Awelye Awelye Atnwengerrp the title of the painting refers to significant aspects of the life of the artists Minnie, Molly, Galya and Emily Pwerle . These are bush fruits, body paint, ceremonies, dancing lines and their homeland Atnwengerrp, a region of Utopia, some 250 km north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. In their paintings, Minnie, Molly, Emily and Galya draw on the same dreamings.