Artwork Story
Marie paints the Awele Awele, known as the wild tomato or gooseberry. The clonal sub-shrub of the awele awele grows most commonly on foothills and lower hill slopes throughout Central Australia. It produces beautiful purple flowers and velvety grey or bluish-green leaves and the tomatoes are produced in abundance during good moisture conditions. Once collected, the Aboriginal people eat the tomatoes raw or put them in the hot earth by the fire and cook them.
