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Awelye - Women's CeremonyGalyas 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,

in Western Australia

Alice Springs

and her unique style

The importance lies not solely in the paint itself but also in the communal painting process

and bush banana

ancestral women danced at Mina Mina and ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks) rose up out of the ground

Galya’s work is distinctive and highly individual

In their paintings

Combining various dotting techniques and bold

Awelye Atnwengerrp – the title of the painting refers to significant aspects of the life of the artists Minnie

Her brush marks track ancient journeys along 'dreaming' trails which are called song lines at times

their dreamings and their way of life