When Allery Sandy flew over Yindjibarndi country in a plane for the first time, it stirred something deep and ancient inside her. A sea of Mulla Mulla (pink wildflowers) swelled across the rocky tablelands, where Dreaming stories are carved into the landscape and a network of waterways crawl towards the Fortescue River.
It was at that moment Sandy knew she wanted to paint her ngurra (country). “I said to my husband, ‘If I ever get my hands on a big enough canvas, I will paint all the beauty that is down below’,” she says.