Bush Seeds Medium:Acrylic on Linen Pantjiya was born ca

Pantjiya was born ca

She was born at a place called Riya on the Turner River

Using only two or three colours on a background field of connected dots which

representing sustenance for her people across generations

1946 at Atnangkere Soakage

Bush Seeds Medium:Acrylic on Linen Pantjiya was born caGalyas 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,