Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen Narpula began exploring her own

Narpula began exploring her own artistic voice

Nyangarni’s family and other groups migrated north to the cattle station country surrounding the Fitzroy Valley

Janie paints for Tjala Arts at Amata Community

Beryline has lived in Frog Hollow since and raised her children there

but later moved to Watiyawanu (Mount Liebig - 325 km west of Alice Springs) (with her husband Norman Kelly

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen Narpula began exploring her ownGalyas 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,