Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag Dreamings related to her country

Dreamings related to her country west of Nyirripi and near Lake MacKay

laid on a plain background of green pigments on each side of the painting

Washington

Two Jangala men

In these works

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag Dreamings related to her countryGalyas 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,