Awelye Nancy-petyarre-tag She began station work at

She began station work at the age of 15 years

both artists working with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre

Indigenous people use the seeds in several ways: they can be ground on a flat rock with a stone to make flour for bread or cookies

Minnie Pwerle's first exhibition was in 2000 at Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne and many others followed and her works can be found in numerous collections in Australia and overseas and no collection of Aboriginal Art is complete without a Minnie painting

earning her a reputation as perhaps the most widely travelled painter in Australian art history

Awelye Nancy-petyarre-tag She began station work atMinnie painted stories, or Dreamings, connected to the bush tomato and the wild desert orange. The people of Utopia call these plants anemangkerr and akarley. In her paintings, both fruits are shown as circles. A shape that appears often in her work hangs down and is filled with parallel lines. It represents a womans breast decorated for womens ceremony. Minnie was a respected tribal elder and ceremonial body painter, and she brought parts of that