This artwork depicts Goanna with eggs nesting on red desert sands, as a snake tries to come into the nesting area preying on eggs. In central Australia, the Goanna and Snake are totemic spirits and Aboriginal artists who paint Goanna or Snake Dreaming do so, to honour their ancestral spirit.

Goanna, their eggs and lizards represent a substantial part of Aboriginal people's food source. The goannas are tracked down and dug from burrows using a digging stick.

If you would like to know more about Snake and Goanna and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:

• Goanna Dreaming
• Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories
• Aboriginal Food