Awelye - Body Painting Medium:Acrylic on Linen As is the case with

As is the case with a number of other older ladies of the desert her paintings demonstrate one of the last remaining links with women's ceremonial knowledge

ancestral women danced at Mina Mina and ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks) rose up out of the ground

Whilst at Papunya

another community some 130km away

1936 in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia

Awelye - Body Painting Medium:Acrylic on Linen As is the case with4 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.