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Catalogue Number: 25/156
This is a painting about women collecting bush tomato’s. The bush tomato is found in the hot dry bushland of Central Australia. After a big rain the plants grow tiny flowers and soon after, produce small green fruits. The green fruit is not ripe, when the fruit turns yellow it is ripe and ready to eat. The fruit can also become dried in the sun and turn brown, this is also still good to eat. The painting shows the women walking though the bush, the brown curves in the painting represent women sitting amongst the yellow and green fruits.
Aboriginal Women know how to find bush food in the desert and they pass on this knowledge to the younger women.