Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag Gloria recalls first painting this

Gloria recalls first painting this subject in April 1994 at Mosquito Bore

From the early 1980s

you have to keep going”

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

This is a Creation Story about the constellations of Pleiades and Orion

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Molly-pwerle-tag Gloria recalls first painting thisAda Bird Petyarre, c. 1930 2009 Born around 1930 on Utopia Station at Atnangkere, Ada lived the last part of her life at Mulga Bore (borders Utopia). Her country was Atangkere and she is an Anmatyerre Alyawarre speaker. Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine, the bush bean, the Emu, Pencil Yams and grass seeds. However, she also shares with her six sisters the Thorny Mountain Devil Lizard