Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection As a highly respected Pintupi

As a highly respected Pintupi elder

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Lorna Fencer Napurrula played a significant role in maintaining and strengthening her cultural identity

In this work she displays a cross motif that is peculiar to this work

traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa and other elements

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection As a highly respected PintupiGalyas 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,