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Awelye and Bush Melon
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Description

Acrylic paint on Belgian linen, unframed.

Size: 183cmx 61cm.

Location: On display in the gallery during the aboriginal art exhibition December 2025. Refer to our exhibitions page to find out more. 

Code: TBCM 1304-12.

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The Artist

Betty Club Mbitjana

Born: c. 1954

Died: 2023

Language Group: Anmatyerre

Region: Utopia, NT

Betty was born c.1954 and is the daughter of renowned artist, Minnie Pwerle and
sister to Barbara Weir, one of Australia’s most prominent artists. Betty’s bush plum and bush melon awelye (dreaming) paintings depict what Utopian women paint on their bodies and the dancing tracks made in the sand during women’s awelye ceremonies. Through these ceremonies the women pay respect to their ancestors, country and their responsibilities in their communities. For the awelye ceremonies the women paint their breasts and upper arms in red and white ochre. Betty’s work shows an aerial view of the ceremony with the waterholes, dancing
tracks, and pairs of breasts moving as a woman dances.


Betty was married to Paddy Club who died in 2012. She lived Utopia and sometimes Alice Springs.
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