Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag Molly's paintings are characterized by

Molly's paintings are characterized by a series of long horizontal or vertical lines that represent the markings painted on the upper part of the women's bodies when they gather to perform their ceremonial dance

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dancing and singing together with the other women in her community

It is at these sacred sites that the women narrated their Dreamtime stories through song lines

In these works

Awelye - Women's Ceremony Tjimpuna-williams-tag Molly's paintings are characterized byGalyas 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,