This art work was a visual aid for my Indigenous Adult Art students at Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education, Alice Springs NT. where I was a Visual Arts Lecturer for some years.
We were experimenting with building up canvas with an array of materials(Corn flour glue, tissue and newspaper mixed with paint) which could be easily found around their own remote communities. We had been following a story common to all of them about a couple of lizards who lived in a car in the community dump. I thought a theme of a couple of Prente lizards(found up in the Barkly Region around Tennant Creek NT.) which were dedicated to Climate change, distributing pamphlets about the topic across the desert would be fun and a pertinent idea. Why couldn’t they do such a job! They are Aussie’s too!