Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection the Bush Hen consumes her

the Bush Hen consumes her favourite fruit

a visual echo of the sung narratives that have guided generations

Pantjiya married George Maxwell Tjangala

In 2020 she was also a finalist in the Heysen Prize

This painting is about the Country Kura Ala

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection the Bush Hen consumes 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,