Awelye Nancy-petyarre-tag This place also holds the

This place also holds the Dreaming of the Native Owl who travelled across the desert and came to live in a large gum tree by the creek

both artists working with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre

is a series of sacred and mythological song cycles which describe the epic journey of the Ancestors in the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa) as they travelled through the land creating particular sites and teaching Aboriginal law

Minnie Pwerle's first exhibition was in 2000 at Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne and many others followed and her works can be found in numerous collections in Australia and overseas and no collection of Aboriginal Art is complete without a Minnie painting

Her artwork has been acquired for the collections of the National Museum of Australia

Awelye Nancy-petyarre-tag This place also holds theMinnie painted stories, or Dreamings, connected to the bush tomato and the wild desert orange. The people of Utopia call these plants anemangkerr and akarley. In her paintings, both fruits are shown as circles. A shape that appears often in her work hangs down and is filled with parallel lines. It represents a womans breast decorated for womens ceremony. Minnie was a respected tribal elder and ceremonial body painter, and she brought parts of that