Old Women teaching young women to make baskets around the rockholes

BORN in Balranald New South Wales to Kathleen Murray-Smith and Billy Hughes, Coral's bloodline runs from the Northern territory Arunta people, to the Kokatha people in South Australia and the Yorta-Yorta and Mutti-Mutti People in Victoria.

The dedication and patience Coral shows to her work is evident with the detailed layering of symbols and the meanings ascribed to them.

Here she depicts women collecting spinifex grasses to weave baskets but a work of this beauty is so much more than that.

As a child Coral remembers sitting on rocks along the banks of the Murray River with her Mum and Aunties when they would teach the girls weaving. The baskets they had done were left there when they went to eat and then sleep. In the morning, they found all the baskets had floated down the river.

An ending not without its sadness redeemed into a truly majestic piece of art.