Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection Yaritji Heffernan: Artist and Cultural

Yaritji Heffernan: Artist and Cultural Custodian

The British Museum

To evade them

Pantjiya married George Maxwell Tjangala

and taught her and her two young sisters to live a traditional life

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection Yaritji Heffernan: Artist and CulturalGalyas 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,