Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag The circles in the work

The circles in the work show the water holes made by this dreaming and the lines are representing sandhills near Kiwirrkura

Ada participated in the batik program at Utopia and therefore was one of the originators of the 'Utopia School'

Phyllis Thomas is a Gija woman of Nagarra skin whose bush name

The artist painted this piece in his place on the Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane

Warlawurru (eagles) and Miinypa (native fuschia)

Awelye Ena-nakamarra-gibson-tag The circles in the workGalyas 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,