Tali - Sandhill Country, 2000 by Barbara Napangarti Reid, 122x122cm, Cat 5614BR

This painting represents features of this landscape: puli or rock formations, represented here by the stratified, elongated U shapes: and tali – the waving horizontal lines depicting the sweeping sand dunes. This traditional method of representing geographic formations through the use of stratified lines also has its roots in the body paint worn by women during sacred ceremonies.

The site here is the artist’s custodian site, Tjukurla , in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia.