Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen and reside on his out-station

and reside on his out-station when not at Walungurru or in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)

Weir’s initial recognition on the international stage came with exhibitions in Paris and Switzerland in 1996

I was walking and worrying all the time about my mother but I kept going

Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen and reside on his out-stationGalyas 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,