Title: Aboriginal Body Painting
ID: 0851073
Artist: Colleen Wallace Nungari
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 31x41 cm
This painting depicts awelye 
. The women apply with a typale body paint designs to their upper body and thighs from ground ochre, charcoal and ash. Body paint designs or markings have been applied to womens bodies for over forty thousand years and is known as the world's oldest living culture.
Women's ceremonies include many song lines and dance cycles and they generally occur at spiritually significant places. At these sites often the women will draw depictions in the sand, which now is transferred onto canvas or modern artists materials. These ceremonies are extremely important because the women pay homage to their country and Dreaming story they are attached to.
If you would like to know more about Awelye and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles or to view video footage of Aboriginal women applying awelye:
An Australian Aboriginal artwork should always be issued with a Certificate of Provenance, also known as a Certificate of Authenticity. This document contains vital information on the artist, as well as details about the artwork itself. When selling on an artwork, please ensure that this document is passed on. Authenticity of Provenance means that the origin or authorship of a work of art has been correctly identified.
Central Art follows a well defined provenance and authenticity process to ensure that we are an exemplar in our business practice . Careful and detailed documentation follows – each work is given a catalogue number, inscribed on the back of the artwork with the Central Art stamped logo, the artist's signature and the title of the work.
Printed on the Certificate of Provenance is a copyright acknowledgement that reads as follows:
This work is copyright. The copyright is owned by the Artist and his/her people. This painting may not be reproduced in part, in whole, or in any other form without the permission of the Artist or his/her inheritors clearly in writing, with all knowledge prior to final proof to the family concerned – then only when clearance has been approved.
Description
This painting depicts awelye . The women apply with a typale body paint designs to their upper body and thighs from ground ochre, charcoal and ash. Body paint designs or markings have been applied to womens bodies for over forty thousand years and is known as the world's oldest living culture.
Women's ceremonies include many song lines and dance cycles and they generally occur at spiritually significant places. At these sites often the women will draw depictions in the sand, which now is transferred onto canvas or modern artists materials. These ceremonies are extremely important because the women pay homage to their country and Dreaming story they are attached to.
If you would like to know more about Awelye and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles or to view video footage of Aboriginal women applying awelye:
- Awelye (Women's Ceremony) Art
- Aboriginal Women
- Aboriginal Spirituality
- Utopia Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
- Video Aboriginal women applying Awelye
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Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 31x41 cm
This painting depicts awelye . The women apply with a typale body paint designs to their upper body and thighs from ground ochre, charcoal and ash. Body paint designs or markings have been applied to womens bodies for over forty thousand years and is known as the world's oldest living culture.
Women's ceremonies include many song lines and dance cycles and they generally occur at spiritually significant places. At these sites often the women will draw depictions in the sand, which now is transferred onto canvas or modern artists materials. These ceremonies are extremely important because the women pay homage to their country and Dreaming story they are attached to.
If you would like to know more about Awelye and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles or to view video footage of Aboriginal women applying awelye:
An Australian Aboriginal artwork should always be issued with a Certificate of Provenance, also known as a Certificate of Authenticity. This document contains vital information on the artist, as well as details about the artwork itself. When selling on an artwork, please ensure that this document is passed on. Authenticity of Provenance means that the origin or authorship of a work of art has been correctly identified.
Central Art follows a well defined provenance and authenticity process to ensure that we are an exemplar in our business practice . Careful and detailed documentation follows – each work is given a catalogue number, inscribed on the back of the artwork with the Central Art stamped logo, the artist's signature and the title of the work.
Printed on the Certificate of Provenance is a copyright acknowledgement that reads as follows:
This work is copyright. The copyright is owned by the Artist and his/her people. This painting may not be reproduced in part, in whole, or in any other form without the permission of the Artist or his/her inheritors clearly in writing, with all knowledge prior to final proof to the family concerned – then only when clearance has been approved.
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