Mrs Waal-Waal Ngallametta was a senior Cape York artist renowned for her large-scale paintings – artworks in which she mastered figurative scenes combined with meandering dotted patterns over bold ochre fields, and where she wove together a multitude of perspectives and stories in a glimmering fabric. Ngallametta’s career was very short, but highly influential – she began to paint in 2008, and only created her large-scale canvases, for which she is renowned, from 2010. Show Me the Way to Go Home is the first substantial publication of her oeuvre. Ngallametta is remembered for her rich legacy to her community and to art and culture nationally.