Bush Seeds Medium:Acrylic on Linen Using only two or three

Using only two or three colours on a background field of connected dots which

1948) is a distinguished Aboriginal artist born in the Haasts Bluff region of the Northern Territory of Australia

earning an international reputation that secured her a spot in the ‘TOP100 List’ of Indigenous artists

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“Dreamworks”

Bush Seeds Medium:Acrylic on Linen Using only two or threeGalyas 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,