Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm Maggie has four children and

Maggie has four children and “a big mob of grandkids”

then overlays it with expressive coloured dotting that partially conceals the design beneath

With her family she lived a nomadic lifestyle before moving east to the ration depot at Haasts Bluff

Walala developed his own unique and boldly graphic style of painting

Utopia is a cattle station situated in the Sandover area of Central Australia

Awelye Size:90 x 120 cm Maggie has four children andGalyas 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,