Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm The spring is in a

The spring is in a gorge with the open sky shown as a plain expanse of paint above the water and rock faces

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

their lands

It was at Papunya where she observed men

From the early 1980s

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm The spring is in aGalyas 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,