Swamps near Nyrripi A14373 Minnie Pwerle Size: 45 x 120cm

Size: 45 x 120cm

The Bush Plum is a small native blackberry which grows on the Conkerberry bush after good rains

since the dawn of time

Snake Vine is a rope-like creeper that grows up the trunks and limbs of trees

The colour black was obtained either from charcoal or over-ripe bush plums

Swamps near Nyrripi A14373 Minnie Pwerle Size: 45 x 120cmSize: 120 x 180cm acrylic on linen Ngoia paints her fathers country, which is a sacred Warlpiri territory. The oval shapes in her paintings are an iconographic representation of the swamps and lakes near Nyrripi (Talarada) north west of Mount Liebig, approx 200kms west of Alice Springs. The fine detailed dots represent the water drying up and the cracks in the ground forming.