In 2002 Australian master printers Theo Tremblay and Basil Hall collaborated on ‘Yilpinji’ - a portfolio of prints made by Aboriginal artists. ‘Yilpinji’ translates as ‘Love Magic’. The portfolio narrates the traditional rites and rituals involved in courtship but also reflects more generally on the complex social relationships between men and women.

As with most Aboriginal visual art ‘Yilpinji’ draws on ‘dreamings’ – indigenous myths that have profound social implications and in which land and landscape play integral roles. Instead of human and animal figures the images depict tracking patterns to denote activities such as walking, resting and hunting.

Here Susie Bootja Bootja shows a travelling couple resting after digging a waterhole in the bush. The picture shows small boomerang shapes (the marks left on the ground after sitting cross-legged), beside a black disc (the waterhole), while around them a beautiful pattern of lilac, blue and black-and-white flecks represents bush onion plants and stones. The loops of brilliant colour around the margin are distant hills bathed in late afternoon sun.