About

Masterpieces from the Western Desert is an exhibition of contemporary Australian Indigenous
paintings held at Nanda\Hobbs in Sydney.

Although vastly different in aesthetic imagery and iconography, the works speak
of the vast interior of Australia, the country, its people and the mythology that
pervades every sandhill and waterhole throughout.

Powerful, delicate and immensely important to our contemporary culture, these
remarkable works were created to keep the artists’ ancient stories alive. The great
truism of history – is that to understand the present one must first understand the
past – and for …