Charmaine Pwerle

Awelye

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Charmaine Pwerle

Awelye

Central Art Aboriginal Art Store
Code: 11102397
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size: 120x120
Year: 2011
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With the use of Aboriginal iconography this beautiful illustrated artwork depicts various ceremonial places and travelling lines, which are left imprinted in the sand by the women.

The small circles represent the ceremonial places, where the women gathered and performed dance cycles and song lines. The U shaped motifs with lines across represent body paint designs, which are smeared using ochres, onto certain parts of the upper body and thighs. This is an important ritual for women's ceremonies.

The long lines depicted represent dance tracks left imprinted in the sand. Awelye is an imported process for the women from Utopia , in particular Atnwengerrp country.

If you would like to know more about Awelye and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles, or view video footage of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design: