Kalipetapeta, Spring Number Two, 60x60 cm Gladys Petyarr Beasley

Kalipetapeta, Spring Number Two, 60x60 cm Gladys Petyarr BeasleyFiona Corbett Acrylic on Cotton Canvas 60cm x 60cm "Kalipetapeta, spring number two. This is a smaller spring. There are plenty of springs in the creek. One family went to travel from Epenarra to Elkedra. The old people, they'd stop at the spring and collect water, they'd carry it in a special coolamon all the way to Elkedra. They'd put leaves on top of the water to cover it from flies. Now we go with the car and show the young ones. Sometimes a day

"Grandmother's country

drinking medicine

"Bush Flower

"Walking around in the bush

Bush medicine seeds

her painting of the Ghan train is also a comment on human intervention on country

For indigenous people

the wet has cast the dusty landscape in lush green and bush flowers are starting to grow

Felicity Edwards

76 cm x 91 cm

Amaroo Station

Epenarra artist Annette Peterson has painted wildflowers and bush medicine after the springtime rains