Awelye Mickey-jampijinpa-singleton-tag Rita is a talented artist

Rita is a talented artist from Fregon on the APY Lands

water soakages

at the Hahndorf Academy and in 2021 was commissioned to produce a large-scale painting spanning four meters in length for Ulkaria Cultural Centre

Two Jangala men

The area is shaded by large gum trees

Awelye Mickey-jampijinpa-singleton-tag Rita is a talented artistGalyas 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,