Awelye Size:126 x 194 cm and taught her and her

and taught her and her two young sisters to live a traditional life

and speaks about the witchetty grub story

this grass has been important to Aboriginal people because its small black seeds can be ground into flour

an Aboriginal Warlpiri woman

Robert Holmes a Court

Awelye Size:126 x 194 cm and taught her and herGalyas 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,