What began in remote desert communities has since become a truly international movement. From Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa and the founders of Papunya, to Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Rover Thomas who represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. These artists carried the shape of their Country from the sand and spinifex of the desert to the walls of the world’s great museums. The works assembled here span that founding generation and those who followed it. Their paintings hang in the National Gallery of Australia and in leading institutions across Europe, Asia and the Americas, and have featured in landmark exhibitions around the world. Each artist was a senior custodian of culture, painting Country not as landscape but as inheritance: a record of law, memory and belonging carried across tens of thousands of years. To stand before these works is to stand at the origin of a movement that changed the course of Australian art. We are honoured to present them here, in the Ambassadors Lounge, in partnership between Canberra Art Gallery and Hyatt.