Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag Ada participated in the batik

Ada participated in the batik program at Utopia and therefore was one of the originators of the 'Utopia School'

We were wearing yakapiri [bush used to make sandals to protect feet from the hot ground]

I walked out from the desert with my husband when I was a young girl

tribal associations

searching for goanna

Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag Ada participated in the batikGalyas 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,