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and is valued for its healing properties

These stories evoke memories of times when families cared for the land

The area is shaded by large gum trees

dating from around 2004

In her paintings she depicts her country

Awelye Mickey-jampijinpa-singleton-tag and is valued for itsGalyas 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,