Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen Its flavour is bland and

Its flavour is bland and can be compared to rock melon

she remembers and honours important stories that have been passed down to her by her father

Now widowed

” Kirsty uses traditional iconography with an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture

I was walking and worrying all the time about my mother but I kept going

Awelye Medium:Acrylic on Linen Its flavour is bland andGalyas 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,