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AwelyeGalyas 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,

she brought back her first child

Mexico City

Violet Petyarre and her sisters inherited the Thorny Devil Lizard Dreaming from their paternal grandmother

he and his brother walked to Yuendumu and later joined their family at Papunya in 1956

he carried the responsibility of preserving sacred lore through his art

one that relates to Tjukula Tjuta (many rock holes)

In this painting Maureen has depicted her country

noted for her discipline

Gallery Gondwana

accompanied by her daughter Barbara Weir

It is at these sacred sites that the women narrated their Dreamtime stories through song lines

Barbara was taken to Bungalow (now the ‘Telegraph Station’) in Alice Springs and later to other children’s homes around the country