Date of Birth: 1965

Language: Alyawarre

Jeannie Mills Pwerle is an Alyawarre speaker born in 1965. She was in the first group of Utopia women painters who put their stories onto canvas in 1989. Called The Summer Project the subsequent exhibition of these works set a new benchmark for the art of Utopia, launching the artists into what was to become a highly significant, multigenerational and ongoing school of art.

Jeannie is the daughter of the well-known artist, Dolly Mills and niece of the Utopia elder and acclaimed artist, Greeny Purvis Petyarre. Her main painting theme is the Bush Yam, or Anaty, - a staple food for many Utopia people as well an important dreaming story, celebrated in ceremonies by the Utopia women. A widely exhibited artist Jeanie was a finalist in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008 and her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Holmes a Court collection and in many other private collections