Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag and speaks about the witchetty

and speaks about the witchetty grub story

She consistently experimented with different images and painting methods

This grass produces tiny black seeds

275 kms north-east of Alice Springs

Her father was a respected cultural law man

Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag and speaks about the witchettyGalyas 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,