Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection and taught her and her

and taught her and her two young sisters to live a traditional life

the area is sacred to Napangardi and Napanangka women

In 2020 she was also a finalist in the Heysen Prize

traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa and other elements

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

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection and taught her and 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,