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Our dynamic artists are from the Utopia region, a large remote area of Central Australia with no government funded art centre. It has one of the richest art histories and is strongly female led.
About the Artists
Our dynamic artists are from the Utopia region, a large remote area of Central Australia with no government funded art centre. It has one of the richest art histories and is strongly female led.
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“The Dreamtime is the mythological representation of what Aboriginal people carry in their minds. The source of life! This knowledge has not just been planted in their minds, it is taught and structured through initiation and ceremony.” - A.P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology, 1920’s-1930’s
“The Dreamtime is the mythological representation of what Aboriginal people carry in their minds. The source of life! This knowledge has not just been planted in their minds, it is taught and structured through initiation and ceremony.” - A.P. Elkin, Professor of Anthropology, 1920’s-1930’s
This painting depicts women painted in ceremonial body paint designs.
The name for women’s ceremony in Hazel’s language is Awely. After smearing their bodies with animal fat, women trace specific designs and colours onto their breasts, arms and thighs’ in preparation for ceremony. They singing as each woman takes her turn to be ‘painted-up’. Their songs relate to the dreamtime stories of ancestral travel, dance and other totemic plants, animals and natural forces.
Awely demonstrates respect for the land and ancestors.
Name: Hazel Morton
Skin name: Kngwarrey (also spelled Kngwarreye or Ngwarai)
Language group: Alyawarr
Country: Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr
Lives: Utopia, Central Australia
Born: 1964
Appreciating Finer Things...Pink Alhepalh Flower by Hazel Morton Kngwarrey
Catalogue number: SP0276
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