Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection a visual echo of the

a visual echo of the sung narratives that have guided generations

To evade them

She paints with her mother and learnt to paint watching her mother and other people in the community painting

This painting is about the Country Kura Ala

His work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection a visual echo of theGalyas 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,