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AwelyeGalyas 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,

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Her father was a respected cultural law man

about 230 km north east of Alice Springs

Aboriginal body art has been historically utilized by various tribes across Australia to signify a wide array of significant cultural rituals

Throughout the 1980s Tjampitjinpa worked devotedly on a land claim for Ininti

Sharon Adamson is an emerging artist and artsworker at Tjala Arts

and taught her and her two young sisters to live a traditional life

but is still available in sufficient quantities to be harvested and used

Like so many other painters from Utopia

a very important women’s Dreaming site far to the west of Yuendumu near Lake Mackay and the WA border

transcending the boundaries often imposed on Indigenous artists

mastering the interplay of colour and pattern