The idea was to get a number of artists from different regions and cultural backgrounds together in the Top End. We wanted to make it a women's project because of indigenous women's association with plants.

We really wanted each artist to respond from their own practice, so the images have a commonality of the experience and the subject matter and the etching process, and also the diversity of the artists' background.

The artists were referring to their own traditions, but because of the melting pot of the group they moved beyond that as well.

But being an island, there's only one way on and one way off.