“Naata Nungurrayi was born in the Pollock Hills in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. It is a harsh environment with limited diversity. Many Western Desert families were driven out of the area by the cyclic drought conditions and traversed eastwards towards government settlements. This vast sand desert country where Naata travelled and camped until adulthood is the defining subject of her paintings. Drawing from the ancestral narratives of the places she represents, she sings her paintings into being. Through this song, her dynamic performances materialise interchangeably as topographic and iconographic maps of Country, evoking sandhills, water sources, and the shifting hues of the desert.” (Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, 2023, p. 20)