Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag At Puyurru the bird dug

At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake

It is at these sacred sites that the women narrated their Dreamtime stories through song lines

Visitors to the gallery often find themselves drawn to its hypnotic rhythm

whose name in Alyawarr is anemangkerr (pronounced similarly to numun-gurra)

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag At Puyurru the bird dugGalyas 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,