Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection Lorna Fencer Napurrula played a

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

innovation

the area is sacred to Napangardi and Napanangka women

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

and Loomoogool Blue Tongue Lizard Dreaming in which a prominent landscape feature is seen from the side

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection Lorna Fencer Napurrula played aGalyas 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,