Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm With her family she lived

With her family she lived a nomadic lifestyle before moving east to the ration depot at Haasts Bluff

This plant is Portulaca oleracea

Her country was Atangkere and she is an Anmatyerre/Alyawarre speaker

Subsequently

Barbara Weir (c1945 – 2023) was one of the most collected

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm With her family she livedGalyas 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,