Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag dancing and singing together with

dancing and singing together with the other women in her community

Visitors to the gallery often find themselves drawn to its hypnotic rhythm

each one has developed her own unique

At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake

Her artwork portrays stories from the Mt Allan area

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag dancing and singing together withGalyas 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,