As Australia celebrates forty years of contemporary desert painting, this work casts new light on the contribution of Aboriginal women to this movement in its mythic, artistic and political dimensions. A selection of over eighty works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Judy Watson Napangardi, Eubena Nampitjin or Makinti Napanangka from the collection of Arnaud Serval offers insight into a fascinating pictorial heritage unknown to the general public.