Swamps near Nyrripi A14373 Minnie Pwerle Still to this day many

Still to this day many Aboriginal people that live in the desert rely on traditional bush food as a part of their diet

located 200 km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia

The vine is also used to tie around the forehead to cure headaches

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

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

Swamps near Nyrripi A14373 Minnie Pwerle Still to this day manySize: 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.