Awelye - Women's Ceremony Anita-pumani-tag Violet Petyarre and her sisters

Violet Petyarre and her sisters inherited the Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming from their paternal grandmother

1930 - 2009

Utopia and many other places before finally abandoning political involvement as ‘

are typical of Rita's style

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Anita-pumani-tag Violet Petyarre and her sistersMolly's paintings are characterized by a series of long horizontal or vertical lines that represent the markings painted on the upper part of the women's bodies when they gather to perform their ceremonial dance. These lines represent dancing tracks in the sand made by the women. The dance that Molly paints is owned and performed only by women of the Pwerle and Kemarre skin groups. It tells the story of the way in which the female creation ancestors