'The first acrylic desert art paintings were radical and transformative acts. They spoke, and continue to speak, across vastly different and ever more entangled worlds. They illuminated another Australia. They sang its songs’, Professor John Carty writes in Sun and Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People.  Sun and Shadow is a rich compendium of artworks and essays about the art, history and experiences of the Spinifex people or pila nguru living at Tjuntjuntjara community in remote south-west Australia. Co-editor Luke Scholes discusses the impact of events such as the Maralinga atomic tests, the handback of native title in 2002 and the creation of the Spinifex Arts Project on the pila nguru at Tjuntjuntjara.