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AwelyeGalyas 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,

Concentric circles are often used to represent the ‘jintiparnta’ (desert truffles) that the women have collected

During a 2005 visit to our studio

Barbara employs the creamy thick textures that have such a tactile quality

The water gave vitality and life to the area

In many of Barbara Weir’s paintings

From the early 1980s

at Utiopa Art in Sydney

but is still available in sufficient quantities to be harvested and used

Abie’s works on canvas have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally

Born around 1930 on Utopia Station at Atnangkere

she demonstrated artistic talent and technical skill in both batik and canvas

while straight lines can be used to depict the ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks)