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Awelye - Women's CeremonyGalyas 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,

demonstrating high originality and inventiveness

Emily paints for Iwantja Arts in an artist studio located within the remote indigenous community of Indulkana

Groninger Museum

about 230 km north east of Alice Springs

Emily did not encounter European settlers until she was a teenager

Her unique composition and the contemporary edge to her work reflects a keen sense of place retaining the importance of traditional country as inspiration for her art

Contour lines follow the small hills

had settled in the town

The Dreaming track eventually took them far beyond Warlpiri country

Like so many other painters from Utopia

at around the age of 80

During the 1970s

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