In praise of Australian Aboriginal art – ‘the oldest surviving culture in the world’

Dan F. Stapleton, Financial Times, January 28, 2022

a woman sitting in dirt, with a canvas rolled out in front of her. she is using red paint to dot her canvas. She is wearing a blue plaid shirt and floral pants, with a bandana on her head. there is a wile dog laying next to her.

Pwerle, now roughly 75, is a cult favourite of institutions and collectors alike © Andrea Hylands

"If Kngwarreye is the A-lister and Walbidi is the rising star, then Angelina Pwerle (Pull-uh) is the cult favourite - one on whom a growing number of institutions and collectors are quietly placing bets. Thought to be about 75 years old (there is no paper record of her birth), she has been developing her assured and remarkably detailed style of dot-work since the 1990s. Her paintings, which conjure images of distant galaxies, cloud formations and geological phenomena, practically hum with energy."