Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm thanks to decades of cattle

thanks to decades of cattle grazing

The spring is in a gorge with the open sky shown as a plain expanse of paint above the water and rock faces

The Leaves paintings depict bush medicine leaves that fall seasonally to the ground

where secret men’s and women’s business takes place

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm thanks to decades of cattleGalyas 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,