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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,

Tjimpuna uses traditional patterns that relate to rockhole (tjukula) or sand dune (tali)

The tiny black seeds of this plant are stone-ground to make flour

particularly after joining the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association and holding his acclaimed first solo exhibition at Alcaston Gallery in 2003

before moving to Yuendumu as a child where she attended the mission school

Jorna was a native Warlpiri speaker

Yaritji Heffernan was born in 1965 at Mulga Park station

Abie’s works on canvas have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally

There are a number of ‘mulju’ (water soakages) and a ‘maluri’ (clay pan) at Mina Mina

and one of the most collected Indigenous artists of all time

moving from the classic Tingari style of circle-and-line painting to a minimalist style characterised by rectangles set against a monochromatic background

a community rich in cultural heritage

Fire Burning Bright which premiered at the Perth International Arts Festival in February 2002 and opened the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts the State Theatre of Victoria in October 2002

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