Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection the area is sacred to

the area is sacred to Napangardi and Napanangka women

Phyllis' work has been acquired by a number of collectors and galleries including a special focus purchase of five paintings by the Western Australian Art Gallery in 2000

an important women’s site close to Mimili community

In 2020 she was also a finalist in the Heysen Prize

Awelye - Women's Ceremony abie-loy-collection the area is sacred toGalyas 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,