Leaves Medium:Acrylic on Linen, Gloria’s Leaves

Gloria’s Leaves

My Mother’s Country

a grass long used by Indigenous people as an important food source

depicted walking and eating her way through her ancestral country

Yaritji Heffernan: Artist and Cultural Custodian

Leaves Medium:Acrylic on Linen, Gloria’s LeavesGlorias Leaves, also known as Bush Medicine Leaves, are among the most popular and frequently painted images in Australian art. The Leaves paintings depict bush medicine leaves that fall seasonally to the ground, forming rhythmic, swirling patterns. These leaves come from the Eremophila dalyana shrub, commonly known as Desert Fuchsia. For generations, Glorias clan has used this shrub as the basis for a bush medicine believed to help with kidney