Minnie Pwerle | FireWorks Gallery

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Selected works

FW6071 Awelye Atnwengerrp	FW8875 Body stripe design	FW14888 Awelye Antengerrp
FW20097 Body painting	FW21170 Awelye Atnwengerrp	FW21769 Awelye Atnwengerrp

Bio & CV

Born: c.1910 McDonnell Down Station NT – died 2006 Alice Springs NT
Language: Anmatyerre & Alyawarr
Country: Atnwengerrp
Region: Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs NT

Minnie was well known for her loose, free-flowing and repetitious patterning evocative of finger painting. Her work focused on women’s body (awelye-atnwengerrp) and bush melon designs. Encouraged late in life by her family to partake in the industry that has brought global attention to her region, Minnie began painting full time when she was in her late eighties. Nevertheless, with a gregarious and free-spirited approach to her work, she certainly achieved the freshness and innocence of a child at play. Her distinctive painting style is continually in high demand and is found in prominent private, corporate and public international and national collections including National Gallery of Victoria, AGNSW and Queensland Art Gallery.

MINNIE PWERLE

Born: c 1910 McDonnell Down Station NT – died: 2006 Alice Springs NT

Language: Anmatyerre & Alyawarr

Country: Atnwengerrp

Region: Utopia north-east of Alice Springs NT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2020 From the desert FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2020 Still in the desert FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2014 New to view: Utopia FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2011 Blue August FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2011 Eclectica Exhibition Series (I II & III) FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2010 Body Lines FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2008 Blue: a group exhibition FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2008 Utopia Revisited NG Art Gallery Sydney

2008 Atnwengerrp: Land of Dreaming Minnie Pwerle carpet launch Designer Rugs Showroom Sydney & Corporate Culture Brisbane

2008 EWB Elements group travelling exhibition to all major cities of Austalia Presented by Dacou in conjunction with Dreamtime Art

2007 Standing on Ceremony Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide

2007 Utopia in New York Robert Steele Gallery New York USA

2007 Group Exhibition Australian Embassy Washington USA

2007 Desert Diversity Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne

2007 Treasures of the Spirit – Investing in Aboriginal Art Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide SA

2007 Annual group exhibition APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition with Rio Tinto FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2007 New Works from Utopia Space Gallery Pittsburgh USA

2006 The Dark + Light 1 FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2006 Minnie Pwerle Memorial Exhibition Gallery Savah Sydney

2006 The Pwerle Sisters Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne

2006 Group exhibition APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition Rio Tinto Offices Melbourne

2005 Utopia Revealed Japingka Gallery Fremantle

2005 Annual Group Exhibition Shalom Insititute University of New South Wales Kensington

2004 Diva’s of the Desert Gallery Gonwana Alice Springs

2003 My Grandmother and Me World Vision Walkabout Gallery Sydney

2003 Minnie Pwerle & Mitjili Napurrula Japingka Gallery Fremantle

2003 Group Exhibition Art & Soul Gallery Nashville Tennessee USA

2003 Sydney Art Fair Gallery Savah Sydney

2003 Art from the Dreamtime Portland Art Museum Oregon USA

2002 United – Mother and Daughter Alison Kelly Gallery Armadale

2002 Group Exhibition New York City Univeristy of Texas San Antonio USA

2002 Group Exhibition Mabantua Gallery Alice Springs

2002 Mixed Utopia exhibition at Knut Grothe Galeri Charlottlenlund Copenhagen

2002 Recent Paintings Gallery Savah Sydney

2002 Paintings From Utopia Framed The Darwin Gallery Northern Territory

2002 Mixed Utopia exhibition Galerie a Le Temps Du Reve France

2002 Contemporary Aboriginal Art From The Utopia Region BMGART Adelaide

2002 Minnie’s Country Dacou Gallery Adelaide

2002 Generations Utopia Japingka Gallery Fremantle

2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Musuem and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin

2002 A Collectable Aboriginal Art Event Raintree Gallery Darwin

2002 BIG COUNTRY small worlds FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2002 The Utopia Six Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne

2002 Awelye Atnwengerrp Dacou Gallery Adelaide

2002 Heart and Soul Gallery Nashville USA

2002 Urban Wineworks Gallery Portland USA

2002 In the Cove Carriage House Gallery Portland USA

2002 Chapman Gallery Group Exhibition Canberra

2002 Mixed Utopia Exhibition Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs

2002 Mixed Utopia Exhibition Gallery Savah Sydney

2001 Out of Utopia Chapman Gallery Canberra

2001 Combined exhibition in San Anselmo Marion County USA

2001 Group Exhibition at Mbantua Gallery Alice Springs

2001 Minnie Pwerle Mary Pantjiti McLean - Tumaru Purlykumunu - small stories Japingka Gallery Perth

2001 Painting Country Tandanya Adelaide

2001 Desert Colour - My Country Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery Darwin

2001 Combined exhibition at Dreamtime Gallery Santa Fe USA

2001 Women Artists Of The Australian Desert Gallery 2021 Auckland New Zealand

2000 Gallery Savah Sydney

2000 Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne

2000 Mbantua Gallery Alice Springs

2000 DACOU in association with AMP Sydney

COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of NSW

Queensland National Gallery

Art Gallery of South Australia

La Trobe University

Kelton Foundation

Kreglinger Collection

Thomas Vroom Collection

John McBride Collection

AMP Collection

Hank Ebes Collection

Fred Torres Collection

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