Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag and speaks about the witchetty

and speaks about the witchetty grub story

Emily paints for Iwantja Arts in an artist studio located within the remote indigenous community of Indulkana

The artist painted this piece in his place on the Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane

This grass produces tiny black seeds

Jorna’s paintings often focused on sacred sites and on the animals and plants commonly found in the country surrounding her community

Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag and speaks about the witchettyGalyas 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,