Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen After the death of her

After the death of her husband in 1989

Her colours show its natural condition: green suggests young

an ambassador for her people

whose name in Alyawarr is anemangkerr (pronounced similarly to numun-gurra)

Jennifer's sister

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen After the death of 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,