Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm I went to Jubilee Station

I went to Jubilee Station instead and learnt how to work

After a period of figurative and traditional work

where secret men’s and women’s business takes place

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

thanks to decades of cattle grazing

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm I went to Jubilee StationGalyas 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,