Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm The practice of hunting and

The practice of hunting and gathering bush tucker—native foods—remains important today

He served as chairman of the Kintore Outstation Council and became a prominent painter

From the outset

her work has been about places on her country

Her work is distinguished by its originality and spiritual depth

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm The practice of hunting andGalyas 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,