Deutscher and Hackett

The accompanying certificate of authenticity from Delmore Gallery, Alice Springs indicates that the painting depicts designs associated with Kngwarreye's traditional country Alhalkerre and the yam plants Anooralya.

Kngwarreye depicts the abundant fruits and flowers of the watercourse areas of her country. But the dominant motif in this painting is the wandering line of the roots of the Yam plant Anooralya. The artist's paintings are a celebration of her whole world executed with the confidence and strength that underpins her practice. In this work we find the elements that appear over again in Kngwarreye's paintings; the overlaying of dotting and the build up of colour, the sequences of dots aligned between or over lines, the short dashes and lines, the meandering lines that in later paintings became the singular expressive element of her work.