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AwelyeMinnie Pwerle: Life and Artistic Legacy Early Life and Background Minnie Pwerle, also known as Minnie Purla or Minnie Motorcar Apwerl, was born between 1910 and 1922. She was a prominent Australian Aboriginal artist from Utopia, Northern Territory (referred to as Unupurna in her local language). Utopia is a cattle station situated in the Sandover area of Central Australia, approximately 300 kilometres (190 miles) northeast of Alice Springs. Artistic

in Western Australia

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

earning an international reputation that secured her a spot in the ‘TOP100 List’ of Indigenous artists

or mixed with water to create a drink

landforms and ceremonials sites found in the Gibson Desert

and then went on to Alcoota and Aileron far to the northeast of Yuendumu and eventually on into Queensland

but her chosen medium is ceramics

After nearly a century of cattle grazing

ancestral women danced at Mina Mina and ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks) rose up out of the ground

These rock holes serve as an essential water source for the Anangu

the Bush Hen consumes her favourite fruit

May – June 2007 Couples