Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:80 x 120 cm 460 km northwest of Alice

460 km northwest of Alice Springs

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

are rooted in traditional Indigenous women’s experiences

next to the large Soakage

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:80 x 120 cm 460 km northwest of AliceAda 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