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TVU 12. Alalgura, My Country, Emily Kngwarreye, 1995 48" x 36"

The soft greens and reds here once again speak of the abundance Aboriginal people find in what to our eyes is an extraordinarily harsh desrt landscape. Through painting themselves up big for the ritual theatre of ceremony and singing and dancing Aboriginal women fullfill their role as custodians of the natural cycles, facilitating the renewal of desert life in all its fragile glory.