Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen ” Kirsty uses traditional iconography

” Kirsty uses traditional iconography with an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture

Now widowed

Nancy says she taught herself to paint and also by watching other artists in her community

she and her family would hunt and gather food in the surrounding area

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen ” Kirsty uses traditional iconographyGalyas 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,