Minnie Pwerle Pendant Necklace by Minnie Pwerle
Title: Minnie Pwerle Pendant Necklace
ID: MP031013
Artist: Minnie Pwerle
Medium: Jewellery
Size: 43cm cc cm
This gorgeous pendant necklace depicts Awelye (Body Paint design) by Aboriginal artist Minnie Pwerle, a prominent and successful artist in contemporary Indigenous Australian art.
Minnie's paintings include two main design themes. The first is free-flowing and parallel lines in a pendulous outline, depicting the body painting designs used in women's ceremonies, or awelye.
The second theme involves circular shapes, used to symbolise bush tomato (Solanum chippendalei), bush melon, and northern wild orange (Capparis umbonata), among a number of forms of bush food represented in her works.
If you would like to know more about the artworks of Minnie Pwerle and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:






