Nalirri - Hot/Dry Season (Dry Waterholes)

Nalirri - Hot/Dry Season, during the dry season hot weather starves the country into drought, country is dry,

Waterholes or soakages a source of water in Australian deserts, called as such because the water seeps into the sand and is stored below ground, sometime as part of an impermanent river or creek. Waterholes can still be found across the desert, some in the form as rock waterholes hidden by overgrown foliage.

This artwork depicts country scarce of water, dry desert sand and the network of underground water catchments - the sand and mud was scooped using a Coolamon or Woomera, often to a depth of several meters until clean water gathered in the base of the hole.

Waterholes are significant sites, meticulously maintained, locations of these water sources memorised and passed onto the younger generations. knowledge of where to source water and of significant sites 

Artwork by Luke Jampin Booth.