Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen particularly as only relatives have

particularly as only relatives have the honor of performing this ritual

She was among the first Aboriginal artists who took up painting with acrylic on canvas and linen in her community of Lajamanu

Pantjiya paints the sacred ceremonial sites

and reside on his out-station when not at Walungurru or in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)

Margaret Richards was born 1957 in her Country around the community of Pipalyatjara

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen particularly as only relatives haveGalyas 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,