Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen In this work she displays

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

she remembers and honours important stories that have been passed down to her by her father

1990 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

with six solo exhibitions in Australia

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen In this work she displaysGalyas 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,