> Angelina Pwerle - Atham-Areny Story: 30 July – 30 August 2008 AT Conway Street, London
Angelina Ngal (Sometimes known as Pwerl)
Atham-Areny Story
Acrylic on Canvas, 2008
210 x 150 cm (84 x 60 ins)
Atham-Areny Story
Acrylic on Canvas, 2008
210 x 150 cm (84 x 60 ins)
Born to Nellie Petyarre in the arid desert area of Utopia Station, Angelina Pwerle has become an Australian renowned aboriginal artist, with her work held in collections nationally and internationally. Initially, Angelina began in the medium of batik when this began in the late 1970’s at Utopia. When acrylics swept the Utopia region about a decade later, Angelina made the swift transition and has continued using this medium.
Becoming well known for her fine dot representations of the Anwekety (conkerberry, also known as conkleberry and bush plum), Angelina quickly became a household name. Like most other women, Angelina can paint the women’s ceremonial body paint designs (Awelye), which she does so with bold and colourful feel.
Angelina now enjoys painting the story of Atham-areny, on which this exhibition focuses. Atham-areny are small creatures that live where there is no fire. After a trip home to Utopia in January 2003, where Angelina had visited the site of the Atham-areny story, she began to tell the story though her paintings. Her Atham-areny paintings depict the women prepared to sing and dance with witch doctors to draw sickness out of those touched by the atham-areny creatures.
On a personal level, Angelina was wife number one to artist and sculptor Louis Pwerle (1935 – 1999), though never bore any children.
For more information contact Eleanor Ackland at ellie@rebeccahossack.com
Becoming well known for her fine dot representations of the Anwekety (conkerberry, also known as conkleberry and bush plum), Angelina quickly became a household name. Like most other women, Angelina can paint the women’s ceremonial body paint designs (Awelye), which she does so with bold and colourful feel.
Angelina now enjoys painting the story of Atham-areny, on which this exhibition focuses. Atham-areny are small creatures that live where there is no fire. After a trip home to Utopia in January 2003, where Angelina had visited the site of the Atham-areny story, she began to tell the story though her paintings. Her Atham-areny paintings depict the women prepared to sing and dance with witch doctors to draw sickness out of those touched by the atham-areny creatures.
On a personal level, Angelina was wife number one to artist and sculptor Louis Pwerle (1935 – 1999), though never bore any children.
For more information contact Eleanor Ackland at ellie@rebeccahossack.com