Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm water soakages

water soakages

Walking in the Bush

1927 in the Pintupi country northwest of Walangurru in the Northern Territory of Australia

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It at times takes a long walk to one of the water-holes

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm water soakagesGalyas 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,