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Awelye - Women's CeremonyGalyas 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,

Her work was shown in the major indigenous art exhibition Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius

This painting is on quality linen and comes with a Certificate of authenticity

setting the tone for a successful career

having had a hugely successful artistic career first at Ernabella Arts and then at Ninuku Arts

She spent her early years there

born c1925

When she was a young woman

1990 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

And we didn’t know anyone there either

a vast saline lake that spans the border of WA and the NT and is located 500 km west-north-west of Alice Springs

He was born in Pintupi land at Muyinnga near the Western Australian border

an Aboriginal community located 290 kms northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia