{"product_id":"charmaine-pwerle-awelye-2025-91x120cm","title":"Charmaine Pwerle | 'Awelye, 2025' | 91x120cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e PPFACP1205\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Charmaine Pwerle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Awelye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 91x120cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharmaine Pwerle paints \u003cem\u003eAwelye\u003c\/em\u003e, the women's body paint designs of her Country. The word names the ochre marks worn across the chest and shoulders by women during ceremony. It also names the songs and dances that accompany them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere the canvas reads like a worked surface of memory. Concentric circles bloom across the field. Some are small and tight, others swing wide and loose. They sit among a dense weave of linework, hatching and broken loops that recall the rhythm of brushes drawn across skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is held to black and white with washes of grey. Stripped of colour, the painting leans on mark and movement. You can feel the hand behind every stroke. Quick repetitions. Patient circles. Lines laid down and then crossed again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe circles speak of gathering places and the women who sit around them. The hatched bands echo the painted lines that follow the curve of a body. Read across the whole surface, the work becomes a map of women's business, layered and worked over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharmaine carries a strong inheritance through her mother and grandmother, both senior painters of the Utopia region. Her practice continues that line while finding its own voice. The looseness of her drawing, the confidence of the larger roundels, the willingness to let the ground show through, all belong to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a generous, energetic canvas. It rewards slow looking. The longer you sit with it, the more the song underneath begins to surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PPFA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51277790806249,"sku":"PPFACP1205","price":4950.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/PPFACP1205-Charmaine_Pwerle-2025-Awelye-91x120_web2000.jpg?v=1781561464","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/charmaine-pwerle-awelye-2025-91x120cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}