Awelye
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic
120 x 90 cm
47 x 35 in
The Awelye designs represent a range of dreamings including animals and plants, healing and law. The designs are painted on the chest and shoulders using powders ground from ochre, charcoal and ash, applied with a flat padded stick or with the fingers in raw linear and curved lines. The act of decorating the body transforms the individual and changes their identity. During the painting, which can take up to three hours, the women chant their dreaming. Aboriginal women have been applying body paint for thousands of years and Awelye could claim to be one of the oldest living art forms in the world.
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AUD $15,000
