"Alyawarre visual artist,lives at Mosquito Bore (NT),and has been exhibiting with the vibrant artistic community of Utopia for over ten years."

In 1986 she was introduced to batik; however, in recent years she has primarily focused on sculpture and painting. The representation of awelye (Dreaming) bush plum, arrkere (night owl), bush foods,and flowers remain the central concerns of her work, Along with other women artists of Utopia, Pwerle was first given canvas and acrylic paint in the late 1980's, her canvases characteristically feature an intense concentration of dots which produce the effect of movement, or shadows, across the surface. Her work is distinct from that of other artists of her community in the clarity of her colour schemes. Placed on dark backgrounds, the dots take on pure, ephemeral quality. There is a strong heritage of caving amongst the men and women of Utopia, although until the 1980s women made only the non-traditional sculptural work. It was in this context that Pwerle's bold, whimsical animals and figures were first produced. The artist gives creatures and little people bright eyed , startled and adorns their bodies in greens, grey and blue as well as traditional ochres...... She regularly holds solo exhibitions.... Private and Public collections hold examples of her work."

Source

The Oxford Companion To Aboriginal Art and Culture. Kleinert & Neale.