Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm This gradual immersion into the

This gradual immersion into the intricate methods of painting cultivated a strong artistic identity that would later emerge prominently in her solo works

From there

I went to Jubilee Station instead and learnt how to work

their lands

Abie’s works on canvas have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Size:90 x 120 cm This gradual immersion into theGalyas 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,