Yams, Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Plums

Featuring Works by Esther Bruno Nangala, Naata Nungurrayi, Jeannie Mills Pwerle, Lorna Ward Napanangka, Ningura Napurulla, Angelina Pwerle, Josepha Petrick Kemarre, Kathleen Ngala, Polly Ngale, Lorna Fencer Napurulla, Bessie Petyarre, Judy Watson Napangardi, Faith Butler, Stella Multkatana, Yinarupa Nangala, Tarisse King, and Tilau Nangala

Yams, Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Plums is an exhibition celebrating the bush tucker of First Nations Australia in paintings created by contemporary Indigenous Australian artists. On view October 25 through December 2021,  The works in this exhibition feature imagery of Central Australian bush tucker. The term bush tucker refers to tucker (food) from the bush (bush referring to land – nature – the outback). Plant and insect foods are described in highly figurative and mystically abstract bush tucker paintings.

This exhibition was supported by the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Architecture, and One Health Arts and Sciences (onehealthgalleries.org), and the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org) and organized with Dr. Andrea Ottesen