Wild Orange Dreaming
Lizzie Pwerle Moss
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About Artwork
Code: EDA-LP1991/21
Artist: Lizzie Pwerle Moss
Region: Atnwengerrp, Central Australia
Medium: Polymer acrylic on Belgian linen
Size: 90cm x 150cm
Akarley (Northern Wild Orange)
Lizzie Moss Pwerle depicts the story of her dreaming – the wild orange which grows on Atnwengerrp. The wild orange is an Australian native plant found in dry inland areas of Australia and its scientific name is Capparis mitchellii.
The small slender tree of this wild orange plant grows about 3½ m high with dark bark and weeping foliage. The wild oranges hang down on long stalks, turning yellow or red when ripe. It is soft inside and is often compared to the flavour of custard apple. The fruit is consumed raw with the tough outer skin discarded or laid out to dry to consumed during months when bush tucker is scarce.
Lizzie Pwerle illustrates her stories of the wild orange dreaming with myriads of fine dots in linear designs. These represent the fruit and the songlinesassociated with this important food source. She and the Pwerle sisters share this story with younger generations of women and girls. The women’s ceremonies ensure the health and well-being of this plant, both spiritually and physically.
The physical creation of this Dreaming is an important part of the bush tucker ceremonies conducted by the Utopia women. Her paintingsensure the continuation of an ancient and rich cultural heritage while identifying Lizzie’s connection to her country.
Artist Information
Lizzie Pwerle Moss born in 1955 at New MacDonald Downs is an Alyawarre woman from Atnwengerrpe, in the Utopia region of Central Australia, northeast of Alice Springs. Lizzie is a first cousin to the late, great Minnie Pwerle. She lives there with her large extended family including her cousins the other Pwerle sisters – Molly, Emily and Gayla.
Lizzie Pwerle began her artistic career in the eighties with the batik program at Utopia. She was involved in the ‘Utopia: A Picture Story’ exhibition, a collection of 88 silk batiks that is now part of the Holmes à Court Collection. Like many of the women involved in that project Lizzie then began experimenting with paint on canvas and is still working in this medium today.
When working on her paintings, Lizzie Pwerle uses series of intricate dots in linear arrangements depicting the songlines and topography of her country predominated by the Wild Orange – atwakeye.
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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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