Mavis Ngallametta (1944–2019) is remembered for her rich legacy to her community and to art and culture nationally. From her birthplace in the Kendall River region to Aurukun and its surrounds, she first made her name as a weaver. It was only in 2008 — at the age of 64 — that she began to record her world through painting. Her idiosyncratic explosions of colour and fine line work capture both the wide perspective of the landscape and the microcosm of plant and animal life. Her paintings are visually complex and alive with detail, and just as rich with personal connections to the sites depicted.