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Bush TomatoGalyas 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,

Her work depicting Dreaming places and bush tucker from the Crocodile Hole area as well as the country around the middle reaches of the Ord and Turner rivers where she was born

Ngarralja was also an executive for twenty one years on the Association of Northern Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) Board of Directors

Nyangarni’s family and other groups migrated north to the cattle station country surrounding the Fitzroy Valley

When equal wages legislation was passed and Gija people were forced off their country

and she draws upon her ancestral heritage and the teachings of her father

I was frightened but I came out at Old Bililluna

created this artwork

she and her family relocated from Haasts Bluff to the new settlement of Papunya

1927 in the Pintupi country northwest of Walangurru in the Northern Territory of Australia

She held her first solo exhibition in 2000 and was selected as the only female desert artist to paint the ceiling of Paris’s Musee du quai Branly

Frequently painted on a black ground with fine cream dotting

Janet would go hunting and fishing with the old people

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