After rain
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Topsy is a Rain Dreaming lady. That painting [After rain 2024], it’s Rain Dreaming – Kwaty – she paints rain.
When it’s dry time the grass all changes to yellow. When it’s wet it’s green, the colour changes to green and yellow; when it rains the grass gets green and bush tucker comes up.
Long time when they go hunting they collect bush foods, all sorts of bush tucker. When it’s green after the rain everything grows. Topsy is Rain Dreaming lady.
Translated from Alyawarr by Rosieanne Holmes Napanangka from conversation with Daisy Peterson and Kaye Beasley (on behalf of Topsy Beasley), Tennant Creek, June 2025.
Topsy Kemarre Steppa Beasley was born at Hatches Creek in the Davenport Ranges circa 1932 and is now one of the most senior painters living in Wutunugurra (Epenarra). She has been painting with the Epenarra artist collective for decades and has developed an intuitive and heavily textural painting style which she uses to depict a wide range of subjects, often focusing on particular species of flora and fauna. Topsy’s choice of subject has had significant influence on younger members of the Epenarra artists collective, many of whom have followed her lead in using art as a vessel for multigenerational knowledge sharing.
