Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen After the death of her

After the death of her husband in 1989

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

she assisted her husband

they moved away together to Haasts Bluff

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen After the death of herGalyas 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,