Twempere, 61x61cm

Sonya Murphy Napaljarri

Acrylic on canvas

61 x 61cm

"Those are the sandhills, we call them twempere. All around Ali Curung. Every time I do painting, I'm thinking about what's outside there, in the sand hills. They are important to me. Bush tucker, bush medicine and everything fresh we get from the sandhills. Sometimes we go out there and get bush leaves to smoke our newborn babies. I'm thinking about my family too. Most of my family are artists and when we go out hunting we get stories from them."