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Catalogue Number: 24/45
This painting tells a story about bush tomato’s that grow after the rain in the Central Desert area. The local women living in this area go out into the bush to collect this fruit. The brown curved shapes in the painting represent the women sitting on the ground, they have their digging sticks beside them. The yellow bush tomato is ripe and ready to eat, sometimes it stays on the vine and dries in the hot sun and turns brown, this is still good to eat.
Aboriginal families living in Remote Central Australia go out and collect the fruit when it is ripe. The knowledge of what these plants look like and where to find them helps families stay strong and connected to their Country.