Awelye Emily-cullinan-tag Surrounded by art from a

Surrounded by art from a young age

after which she returned permanently to Utopia with her six children

Baguette Gallery

ca 300 kms north west of Alice Springs in Central Australia

Awelye Emily-cullinan-tag Surrounded by art from aGalyas 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,