Awelye Atnwengerrp - women's ceremony

Gayla Pwerle

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About Artwork

Code: EDA-GP2030/21

Artist: Gayla Pwerle

Region: Atnwengerrp, Utopia region, Central Australia

Medium: Polymer acrylic on Belgian linen

Size: 92cm x 121cm

Artist Information

The Pwerle sisters – Molly, Emily and Gayla and their three daughters Annie, Susan and Jessie Pitjara Hunter produce a vast body of work celebrating their beliefs and stories associated with ceremonies. Their paintings interpret Awelye (women’s laws/business) and all it symbolises during the spiritual women’s ceremonies. The Pwerle women produce vibrant works honouring their bush foods in particular the desert raisin and wild orange while the daughters celebrate the red-bud mallee tree and the honey grevillea and the sustenance it has provided to the Alyawarre people for generations. These works of art are also representations of body and ceremonial adornments.

The Pwerle women produce vibrant works honouring their bush foods in particular the desert raisin and wild orange while the daughters celebrate the red-bud mallee tree and the honey grevillea and the sustenance it has provided to the Alyawarre people for generations. These works of art are also representations of body and ceremonial adornments.

Gayla Pwerle paintings have been exhibited throughout Australia and in international galleries. She was nominated for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2005 and 2008.

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Ethical Trade Details

Eastern Desert Art is a member of the Indigenous Art Code of Conduct and the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia and sells directly to collectors and galleries nationally and internationally.

To demonstrate provenance, artworks are sold with an Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct Certificate. These Certificates provide the purchaser with information on the artist, the story of their painting (when permitted by the artist under cultural law) and photographs of the artists with their paintings. The artworks are painted on prepared Belgian linen using polymer acrylics.

The local Alyawarre and Anmatyerre artists prepare and work on their paintings at the Eastern Desert art shed located on our property adjacent to Utopia.

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