Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm We had Saturdays and Sundays

We had Saturdays and Sundays off

1930 - 2009

red or yellow) dots on black background

Many of her paintings are based on women's body paint and incorporate notions of bush medicine

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm We had Saturdays and SundaysGalyas 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,