In the 1990s, women from remote Australia became prominent in the Australian artworld. After a centure dominated by male artists, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Pantjiti Mary McLean, Queenie McKenzie (Gara-Gara) and other women began to find a place on the walls of galleries and homes around the country. They captured the imagination with their distinct visions of growing up in the bush, of working on pastoral stations and living in missions. They showed a different side of Australian history, one full of the dramas of living in the desert and small settlements.
Fremantle Arts Centre's 1994 exhibition Bush Women: Fresh Art From Remote WA contributing to the forging of a new frontier in the continent's imagination, as it brought together women from the freshwater country of the north-west of WA and artists from the deserts of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in the south-east. It was the first exhibition to show the extent of this women's art movement in WA.
In 2018, Fremantle Arts Centre restaged Bush Women.
