Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm Abie’s works on canvas have

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

This gradual immersion into the intricate methods of painting cultivated a strong artistic identity that would later emerge prominently in her solo works

After a period of figurative and traditional work

It was at Papunya where she observed men

The Leaves paintings depict bush medicine leaves that fall seasonally to the ground

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm Abie’s works on canvas 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,