Skin: Pwerl

Language: Alyawarr

Region: Atnwengerrp, central Australia

Dreaming: Wild Orange - anemangkarr

Lizzie Pwerle Moss born in 1955 at New MacDonald Downs is an Alyawarr woman from Atnwengerrp, in the Utopia region of Central Australia, northeast of Alice Springs. Lizzie is a first cousin to the late, great Minnie Pwerle. She lives there with her large extended family including her cousins the other Pwerle sisters – Molly, Emily and Gayla.

Lizzie Pwerle began her artistic career in the eighties with the batik program at Utopia. She was involved in the ‘Utopia: A Picture Story’ exhibition, a collection of 88 silk batiks that is now part of the Holmes à Court Collection. Like many of the women involved in that project Lizzie then began experimenting with paint on canvas and is still working in this medium today.

When working on her paintings, Lizzie Pwerle uses series of intricate dots in linear arrangements depicting the songlines and topography of her country predominated by the Wild Orange – atwakeye.

Exhibitions:

2022-3: Prairie Hotel Gallery, Parachilna, Flinders Ranges South Australia

2019: Summer Show and Art Parade, Slat, Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia

2016-19: Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2009: Utopia and Papunya Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Bay Gallery, London

2009: Gallery Savah, Sydney, Australia

2009: Utopia, colours of the Desert, Gongpyeong Art Space in collaboration with Dacou, Australian Embassy in Korea and Crossbay Gallery, Seoul

2008: Utopia Discoveries, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2007: Standing on Ceremony, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, Australia

1990: Utopia – A picture story, an exhibition of 88 works on silk from the Holmes A Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Ireland and Scotland

1989-91 Utopia – a picture story, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, Australia