Awelye abie-loy-collection the federal government established Yuendumu

the federal government established Yuendumu community to deliver rations and welfare services to the Aboriginal people who had been working with the Labour Corps in Alice Springs during WWII

Ada's works are now collected throughout the world and reside in many outstanding collections

the surrounding country was abundant with Portulaca oleracea

Kukika Adamson was born in 1950

Art Gallery of NSW

Awelye abie-loy-collection the federal government established YuendumuGalyas 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,