Alvira Bird Mpetyane

Alvira Bird Mpetyane paints Awelye, women's ceremony and body paint designs, along with the bush plum, rat-tail plant and mulga seed they represent. Drawing on ceremonial body painting, she shows women as U shapes and uses colour with intent: black for bush plums, white for rat-tail seeds and yellow for mulga seeds. She learned to paint among her family, including her mother Eileen Bird and grandmother Ada Bird Petyarre.