Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen A shape that appears often

A shape that appears often in her work hangs down and is filled with parallel lines

means 'big rain coming down with lots of wind'

As is the case with a number of other older ladies of the desert her paintings demonstrate one of the last remaining links with women's ceremonial knowledge

In this work she displays a cross motif that is peculiar to this work

1990 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen A shape that appears oftenGalyas 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,