Angelina Pwerle

Angelina Pwerle, an Anmatyerr woman,[2] was born around 1939[3] at the Utopia homestead, in the region of Central Australia, about 250 km (160 mi) northeast of Alice Springs, more than 25 years before the pastoral property was returned to its traditional owners.

[12] Her work was featured in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia, which toured the United States and Canada in 2016–2019.

[13] In the book published alongside the exhibition, curator Anne Marie Brody writes: "Pwerle's works are, like the late masterpieces of Mark Rothko or Claude Monet, deep crystallizations at the far frontier of creative endeavor.

[15] These canvases characteristically feature an intense concentration of tiny dots which, says curator Nici Cumpston, "gives the overall effect of a subtly textured, shimmering surface.

[16] In 2022, National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich told the Financial Times: "The way her practice has developed is extraordinary.

[1] Writing in The Monthly, Patrick Witton describes a Bush Plum composition as "a constellation of minute dots that cluster and crack forth across the canvas, capturing at once the granular and the expansive".