Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm After a period of figurative

After a period of figurative and traditional work

She won the Northern Territory Art Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Painting in 1986 and was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) in 2003

Her work is recognised within the mainstream of contemporary art

The spring is in a gorge with the open sky shown as a plain expanse of paint above the water and rock faces

This gradual immersion into the intricate methods of painting cultivated a strong artistic identity that would later emerge prominently in her solo works

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm After a period of figurativeGalyas 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,