Tali (Sandhills) A13042 Adam Cullen The iconography surrounding the rock

The iconography surrounding the rock pools are the sandhills (Tali) that the women must travel over to reach the water

stories and songs for the benefit of human survival

Size: 85 x 125cm

while colours refer to different clan and skin relationships

Acrylic on Hollowed Wooden Log

Tali (Sandhills) A13042 Adam Cullen The iconography surrounding the rockYear: 2007 Size: 120 x 180cm acrylic on linen Topsys paintings depict the Sandhills or 'Tali'of her country near Nyirrpi, in the desert of Central Australia. It is the story that was passed onto her by her father, which she paints using small dots in a series of grouped colours. The design mimicking the wind blowing across desert dunes and the subtle shifts in scrub vegetation. Topsy says 'I paint my father's country west of Yuendumu. He was a