Ngurra Tjalaku - Bonnie Nakara Connelly

Bonnie uses a dry brush to apply colour in travelling formations across the canvas, evoking the textured desert landscape where she has spent her life. Bonnie was born near Blackstone in Western Australia and has spent me travelling widely across the remote Ngaanyatjarra lands. Her paintings draw heavily on her strong cultural history, geographic knowledge,and extensive network of familial relations, which snake throughout the desert.

In this work, Bonnie paints a Tjukurpa (Dreaming) story about a man who was hunting out near Kaltukatjara, the community where she now lives. Bonnie depicts the caves that are found just through the gap in the big mountain ranges, where women go digging for honey ants.