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AwelyeGalyas work is distinctive and highly individual. Her early paintings, dating from around 2004, drew on Portulaca oleraceaknown as munyerooa grass once abundant in the Utopia region and an important food source for generations. Its tiny black seed became central to her imagery, with Galya adopting its half circle form as a dominant motif in her paintings. Over fifty years of cattle grazing greatly reduced the abundance of this grass. In her paintings,

Pantjiya paints the sacred ceremonial sites

leading to the establishment of Walungurru (Kintore) settlement in 1981

After marrying and living on Kilkimby Station in the Northern Territory

Awelye - Body Paint

Jorna began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation in 1987

Kelly Napanagka Michaels

Yaritji uses concentric circles to symbolise these rock holes

and then went on to Alcoota and Aileron far to the northeast of Yuendumu and eventually on into Queensland

The women also paint a commonly occurring plant which has provided a staple food for Aboriginal people in Utopia for thousands of years

from both her mother’s and father’s sides

born c1925

For 20 years she worked out of the Ernabella Arts where she honed her craft before joining the APY Studio Adelaide in 2020