Betty Muffler is a respected senior woman and artist at Iwantja Arts in the Central Desert region of Australia. Her practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and traditional tjanpi (grass) weaving. She is a renowned ngangkari (traditional healer), a practice she learned from her paternal aunts. Muffler describes Healing Country (Ngangkari Ngura) 2019 as follows: ‘This is my Country, Yalungu, south of Watarru in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands […] The emus made this shelter at Yalungu, which I love to paint, and the tracks the emus make as they travel. There is a rock shelter above, and below this there is good ground for the emus. My paintings are about ngangkari (traditional healing practices) and sites related to healing. I’ve painted rock holes and the water flowing through the landscape, just like the energy that flows through people and places–it’s invisible to most people but ngangkari can see spirits and feel a lot of different energy.’