Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm From the early 1980s

From the early 1980s

From there

remains highly valued by the women of Utopia

thanks to decades of cattle grazing

yet her artistic legacy continues to inspire future generations

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm From the early 1980sGalyas 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,