The Warlayirti Artists certificate for this painting reads (sic) “This painting Nellie depicts some of her grandmothers country Yagga Yagga located south of Balgo. The circle represents a rock-hole where water can b found and the lines represent the creeks that run between th rock-holes and the tali (sand-hills).
Helen Read adds that Nellie Njamme became a regular painting member of Warlayirti Artists in Balgo Hills as the entity established itself. From her childhood, Nellie witnessed the evolution of the outstation movement across what had become known as Western Australia to ever encroaching new settlers. Maintaining her cultural position of law woman and keeper of traditional First People’s knowledge, Nellie, like her older sister Bai Bai Sunfly Napangardi, share a similar painting palette expressing vibrant, assertive connections to lands and the knowing of precious ‘living water’ hole locations run deep in her sand-hill country.
The waterhole can be seen in the centre of this painting titled ‘Yagga Yagga’, the name of Nellie’s lands just south of Balgo.