Awelye abie-loy-collection ca 300 kms north west

ca 300 kms north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia

but her chosen medium is ceramics

After the death of her husband in 1989

Tjunkiya was born ca

and reside on his out-station when not at Walungurru or in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)

Awelye abie-loy-collection ca 300 kms north westGalyas 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,