Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm These paintings express her deep

These paintings express her deep connection to Country and the stories of her people

thanks to decades of cattle grazing

their lands

After a period of figurative and traditional work

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm These paintings express her deepGalyas 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,