Awelye (Womens Ceremony) by Emily Pwerle

Sold

Click to enlarge

EMILY PWERLE - AWELYE (WOMENS CEREMONY)

Emily Pwerle was born approx.1922 and is the sister of famous Utopian Aboriginal artist Minnie Pwerle. Emily was born in Utopia and has lived a traditional Indigenous life, with little exposure to the Western way of living. This has made her very knowledgeable on Indigenous culture, which provides Emily with her inspiration for her artwork.
 
Interestingly, Emily didn’t pick up a paintbrush until her early 80s. Only when encouraged by her sister Minnie, did she start to explore painting with canvas and acrylic paints. Emily instantly took to painting and in no time started to create works which were individualistic expressions of Dreamtime stories.

Emily Pwerle often paints Awelye, or body paint design, which is a symbolic representation of women’s ceremony, the iconography referring to abstracted breasts, with the traditional hatched pattern. These designs are painted in ochre on the upper torso and breasts of Utopia women during ceremony
 

"Myself and my partner purchased two Didges from Spirt Gallery, a Phil Hershey Ironbark and a TM512, ..."
-Mark

"Reno: The Diggerydoo has made it. It's perfect! It was packed beautifuly. I love it! It certainl..."
-Jan. USA

"My wife and I were on holiday in NSW and New Zealand in Jan/Feb and I came into your shop and purcha..."
-David from Scotland

"good morning from Chickamauga, Georgia. We have received the three didgeridoos. They were packaged..."
-Richard and Donna from Georgia USA

"I just looked up the tag on my didgeridoo, which I bought almost ten years ago in Darwin. It brought..."
-Marco Gipsyhearts Germany

"Dear Tarah, The beautiful didgeridoo made by Phil Kershy which I purchaed on Thursday September 2..."
-Martin from Germany

"Hi I recently bought two didgeridoos from you IB265 and IB264. They are really great so happy with ..."
-Marcus from Florida USA

"I received the didgeridoos today from DHL. They were perfect and as beautiful as I remember. Th..."
-Susan Sebastian from the USA

"Reno thanks for your help and especially your customer service. The Spirit Gallery is the best plac..."
-Larry Sisneros

"I just received the ironbark didgeridoo IB225 with the natural finish and I must say it is simply pe..."
-Mathias from Switzerland