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Nellie depicts ‘Women’s Ceremony’ and ‘My Country’ in her paintings. Most typically Nellie will paint a combination of these two dreamings together. Nellie represents the women travelling across the country in her paintings with traditional iconography. Concentric circles are used to represent sacred womens sites while linear patterns emerging from these circles represent the women travelling from sacred site to sacred site. Womens body paint designs and the important bush tucker also feature heavily throughout Nellies artworks. Nellie has an incredibly strong aesthetic and combines rich earthy colours with a bright contemporary colour palette.