Awelye Nancy-petyarre-tag Margaret Nangala Gallagher was born

Margaret Nangala Gallagher was born in 1967 in Alice Springs Hospital

1945 at Mt Doreen station

both artists working with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre

is a series of sacred and mythological song cycles which describe the epic journey of the Ancestors in the Dreamtime (Tjukurrpa) as they travelled through the land creating particular sites and teaching Aboriginal law

a very important women’s Dreaming site far to the west of Yuendumu near Lake Mackay and the WA border

Awelye Nancy-petyarre-tag Margaret Nangala Gallagher was bornMinnie painted stories, or Dreamings, connected to the bush tomato and the wild desert orange. The people of Utopia call these plants anemangkerr and akarley. In her paintings, both fruits are shown as circles. A shape that appears often in her work hangs down and is filled with parallel lines. It represents a womans breast decorated for womens ceremony. Minnie was a respected tribal elder and ceremonial body painter, and she brought parts of that