Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm then overlays it with expressive

then overlays it with expressive coloured dotting that partially conceals the design beneath

She passed away in Nyirripi in 2011

This plant is Portulaca oleracea

Walala developed his own unique and boldly graphic style of painting

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm then overlays it with expressiveGalyas 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,