Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm 1927 in the Pintupi country

1927 in the Pintupi country northwest of Walangurru in the Northern Territory of Australia

Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine

The practice of hunting and gathering bush tucker—native foods—remains important today

water soakages

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm 1927 in the Pintupi countryGalyas 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,