Awelye Size:126 x 194 cm and later at Kintore

and later at Kintore

Today she paints at Tjala Arts and the APY Studio in Adelaide

and taught her and her two young sisters to live a traditional life

It tells the story of the Old Woman Devil Lizard who travelled across the country creating the landscape and identifying sacred sites

Muna was born in Tjiwuru near Ernabella in 1964

Awelye Size:126 x 194 cm and later at KintoreGalyas 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,