"Ilyarnayt. It’s growing everywhere in Ngarwenyerra. My country. On those sandhills back there. Pretty flowers, yellow ones. Tyape likes them too. He living in there, inside those roots. We dig them up. Tyape kere mwerr-angker."
Hazel Kngwarreye Morton paints Ilyarnayt, the flowering acacia that grows across her Country in the Utopia region of Central Australia. After rain, the yellow blossoms spread across the sandhills, bringing colour and life to the landscape. Beneath the roots of these plants live Tyape, the witchetty grubs, an important bush food gathered from the earth below. Through rich layers of colour and flowing movement, Hazel Kngwarreye Morton reflects the deep connection between plants, food sources and Country.
