Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen she and her family would

she and her family would hunt and gather food in the surrounding area

Now widowed

and Body Paint

Then they sent Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah to go ahead to Kurugnal

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen she and her family wouldGalyas 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,