Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag In these works

In these works

It is at these sacred sites that the women narrated their Dreamtime stories through song lines

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Kirsty paints her Mina Mina Jukurrpa

Yaritji Heffernan: Artist and Cultural Custodian

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag In these worksGalyas 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,