Prints – Floating Framed Canvas – by Janet Golder “My Country” Desert

Janet Golder Kngwarreye
* Skin Name: Kngwarreye
* Language: Anmatyerre
* Region: Utopia, Central Australia
* Dreaming: Awelye & Bush Medicine

Janet Golder Kngwarreye was born in 1973 and is the daughter of Margaret Golder and Sammy Pitjara.
Janet is an Anmatyerre woman from the Utopia region in Central Australia.
She grew up at Mulga Bore in the Utopia region surrounded by her family.
Awelye (also “Yawulyu” in Warlpiri and Warumungu nations) is a ceremonial tradition that includes body painting and is practiced by women by the Anmatyerre and Alyawarr indigenous nations in the Northern Territory, Australia. The term can also be used to describe the songs, dances, totems, knowledge of country, and Dreamtime stories that are part of awelye. The practice of awelye is still actively performed throughout Central Australia for both social and healing purposes