Lizzie Moss Pwerle

Lizzie Moss Pwerle is an Alyawarra woman from Atnwengerrp, a traditional country area in the Utopia region of Central Australia, approx. 300kms north east of Alice Springs. Lizzie began her artistic career using non-traditional materials in the late seventies and early eighties with the batik program that was initially introduced by the first art and craft coordinators Jenny Green and later Julia Murray. Lizzie was involved in the ‘Utopia: A Picture Story’ exhibition, a collection of 88 silk batiks that is now part of the Holmes ‘a Court Collection. From there, it was a natural progression from batik to applying paint to canvas.

In her paintings, Lizzie uses a series of intricate dots to portray the movement of awelye – women's ceremony. The linear work indicates the lines that the women make in the red sand when they dance their stories that belong to Atnwengerrp country.

Lizzie is a first cousin to the late, great Minnie Pwerle. She lives with her aunties Katie and Janie Morgan Petyarre and a very large extended family in Atnwengerrp.