Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection To evade them

To evade them

After the death of her husband in 1989

Barbara has been regarded as a ‘painter’s painter’

the Bush Hen consumes her favourite fruit

Lorna Fencer Napurrula played a significant role in maintaining and strengthening her cultural identity

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection To evade themGalyas 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,