Geraldine Riley Napangardi / Desert Wildflowers (GR40)

Geraldine Riley Napangardi as born at Mount Doreen Station, NT in 1974 and is the niece of Towser Jagamara and Daisy Nabaldjari, both renowned artists. She spent her childhood learning the traditional ways of her country until her early teens when she moved to the nearby community of Yuendumu with her family.

Her Dreaming’s include Women’s Ceremony and Water Dreaming (Ngapa). She also paints artistic depictions of many different bush foods and bush flowers from the area in which she grew up and still resides. These foods are collected by the women, who pass on the knowledge of where to find them during traditional women’s business.

This painting represents the Wild Flowers of the acacia plant. The Indigenous women from the desert regions collect the flowers as well as the seeds, leaves and pods from the acacia plant for both traditional bush medicine and food.