Bush Medicine Dreaming by Lulu Teece Petyarre

11.05.08 | by Sabine Haider

We are delighted to welcome a new artist to the Central Art team, Lulu Teece Petyarre. Lulu Teece Petyarre started painting in the late 1980's...

We are delighted to welcome a new artist to the Central Art team, Lulu Teece Petyarre.

Lulu Teece Petyarre started painting in the late 1980's and took part in the "A Summer Project: Utopia Womens Batiks" in 1988-89, which as acquired in its entirely by the Holmes a Court Collection in 1989.

Lulu depicts in her paintings Bush medicine and Awelye (body paint design). Her art work is very detailed and intricate.

Lulu Teece Petyarre is the sister to Margaret Turner Petyarre, also an accomplished artist.

Bush Medicine Dreaming by Lulu Teece Petyarre depicts particular medicinal plant species the Alawayerre Aboriginal women collect from the Utopia region in Central Australia.

The leaves of medicinal plants are gathered by the women, boiled, kangaroo resin added and mixed into a paste, which is used by Aboriginal people, as bush medicine to treat a variety of ailments. The dots represent a topography of Alawayerre country.