Awelye - Body Painting Medium:Acrylic on Linen Recognition and Legacy

Recognition and Legacy

During 1977

It captures the essence of ancestral journeys across the landscape and embodies the collective memory and spiritual connection of the Pintupi people to their land

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

another community some 130km away

Awelye - Body Painting Medium:Acrylic on Linen Recognition and Legacy4 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.