Awelye - Body Painting Jeanie-lewis-tag to the west

to the west

Emily Cullinan was born in rugged bush land

These stories evoke memories of times when families cared for the land

the seed-producing grass is far less plentiful than it was before white settlement

Robert Holmes a Court

Awelye - Body Painting Jeanie-lewis-tag to the west4 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.