Dorothy Jones Pwerle
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Artist Profile · Northern Territory
Dorothy Jones Pwerle
Alyawarr artist from Atnwengerrp, painting Awelye and the bush foods of her Country.
Born
1953, Atnwengerrp, Utopia, NT
Language group
Alyawarr
Skin name
Pwerle
Painting since
Early 2000s
About Dorothy
Dorothy Jones Pwerle, also known as Dorothy Pwerle, was born in 1953 at Atnwengerrp in the Utopia region of Central Australia. An Alyawarr woman from a strong family of artists, she began painting in the early 2000s and has become a respected Indigenous painter whose work is shown in Australia and overseas.
Her work
Dorothy paints Awelye, the body designs of women’s ceremony, along with Women’s Dreaming and the gathering of bush foods, including akarley (wild orange). Her canvases combine intricate dot work, rhythmic lines and vibrant colour, echoing both ceremonial body paint and the changing seasons of the land.
Women’s Dreaming
Bush foods
Akarley (Wild Orange)
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