Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm Concentric circles are often used

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

I went to Jubilee Station instead and learnt how to work

sites spanning from the west to the east of Yuendumu

From the early 1980s

The Role of Body Painting in Aboriginal Culture

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm Concentric circles are often usedGalyas 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,