Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen she remembers and honours important

she remembers and honours important stories that have been passed down to her by her father

In this work she displays a cross motif that is peculiar to this work

Ngarralja was also an executive for twenty one years on the Association of Northern Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) Board of Directors

” Kirsty uses traditional iconography with an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture

means 'big rain coming down with lots of wind'

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen she remembers and honours importantGalyas 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,