Michelle Pwerle Holmes

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist
Alyawarre artist, and member of the Amperlatwatye community, who worked with batik before taking up painting with other Utopia artists in the late 1980s.
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An Alyawarre speaker, her country is Antarrengenye, north of the area of Irrweltye towards Ammaroo. She paints a Wild Orange Dreaming amongst others, and like most Utopia artists, had already worked in batik before the CAAMA Summer Project of ’88-9 when she first tried acrylic on canvas. She is associated with the community of Amperlatwatye and is one of a large number of Alyawarre people from this area who bear the name 'Holmes’.

Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011

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