Awelye abie-loy-collection Ada's works are now collected

Ada's works are now collected throughout the world and reside in many outstanding collections

or Dreamings

Her art often focuses on women’s ceremonial practices and ancestral stories

Art Gallery of NSW

Dora was renowned for her vibrant paintings that reflect bush foods and dreaming stories

Awelye abie-loy-collection Ada's works are now collectedGalyas 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,