Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag an Aboriginal boarding college in

an Aboriginal boarding college in Darwin

The circles in the work show the water holes made by this dreaming and the lines are representing sandhills near Kiwirrkura

tribal associations

Phyllis Thomas is a Gija woman of Nagarra skin whose bush name

Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag an Aboriginal boarding college inGalyas 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,