– Pwerle Gallery is a 100% Aboriginal, family owned art gallery representing family members from the Atnwengerrp community. We pride ourselves on representing the culture with complete honesty and integrity. When you purchase from Pwerle, you are purchasing directly from the artist.

– Pwerle Gallery is following in the footsteps of the family owned business, Dreaming Art Centre of Utopia ‘DACOU’, which has become firmly entrenched in the contemporary Aboriginal Art industry and is recognised as the leading supplier of quality Utopian artwork.

– Pwerle is the only commercial Indigenous family owned gallery, working with its own community which has operated as a family collective in this industry in Australia for 30+ years without government funding.

– DACOU  is  proud to have broken the record twice in achieving the highest price paid for a painting by an Australian female artist:

• Emily Kame Kngwarreye, ‘Earth’s Creation’, 1995, 275 x 632cm,
  sold at Deutscher Menzies, 2007, for $1.056 million.

• Emily Kame Kngwarreye, ‘My Country – Final Series’, 1996,
  304 x 199cm, sold privately for $1.1 million in 2008

– The highest sold paintings at auction by Minnie Pwerle and Gloria Petyarre each carry DACOU provenance and broke records for the prices they achieved:

• Minnie  Pwerle, ‘Awelye Atnwengerrp’, 2003, 120 x 90cm, sold at Deutscher fetching $40,000

• Gloria Petyarre, ‘Bush Medicine’, 2004, sold at Deustcher Menzies 2007 Auction for $78,000

– DACOU pieces are held in major public and private collections:

• Emily Kame Kngwarreye & Greeny Purvis, Art Gallery of South Australia

• Minnie Pwerle, QLD Gallery of Modern Art

• Barbara Weir, National Gallery of Australia

• Minnie Pwerle & Emily Pwerle, The Corrigan Collection