Galong Cemetery, in the Harden Shire, is the resting place of an original Donnelly settler, Thomas Donnelly, d.1879, ancestor of the artist. The Catholic Church has a strong history in the area for the last 150 years or more. However, the region is also recognised as Ngunawahl (Onerwahl) and Wiradjuri country, a relationship extending back thousands of years. The painting places the viewer in a paddock some distance from the blue-stone walled cemetery, with its Victorian-style, marble memorial stones, at the end of a gravel track. Old and browning scotch thistle lines the track. In the far distance, on the right, the old Redemptorist Seminary can be glimpsed, now known as St Clement’s Retreat and Conference Centre.

Collection of the Artist.