Collection: BENITA OLIVER

This painting is about bush tucker that the women collect. You can see Witchety Grubs, Honey Ants and Bush banana and the implements needed to dig and gather the food.

Benita’s work is typical of the paintings seen from the artists of Santa Teresa who produce incredibly beautiful, precise dot artwork using bright colours. Benita’s bush tucker painting incorporates dot work with realistic imagery of the grubs, ants and bananas that are collected.

Benita started painting for the Keringke Art Community Centre in Santa Teresa in the late 1980’s. Benita then moved to the Community of Amoonguna which is 20km Southeast of Alice Spring off Ross Highway. The community consists of a fluctuating population of 250-300 people of Central and Eastern Arrernte.