Bush Tomato Janie-kulyuru-lewis-tag the Mountain Devil Lizard (Moloch

the Mountain Devil Lizard (Moloch horridus)

In many paintings of this Jukurrpa

The other important dreaming for these painters is the dancing tracks which are made in the sand during women’s ceremony

and which holds the story of the native owl

1993 Chapman Gallery

Bush Tomato Janie-kulyuru-lewis-tag the Mountain Devil Lizard (MolochGalyas 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,