Awelye abie-loy-collection For 20 years she worked

For 20 years she worked out of the Ernabella Arts where she honed her craft before joining the APY Studio Adelaide in 2020

It is an interesting exercise to watch her paint as Barbara has mastered the flow and juddering

the intricate application of body paint serves as a means for Aboriginal people to represent vital aspects of their lives

or Dreamings

but her chosen medium is ceramics

Awelye abie-loy-collection For 20 years she workedGalyas 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,