For this mur­al, Peter has paint­ed the land­scape that he knows best. This land­scape has informed his art since child­hood, trav­el­ling on camels with his father. Peter has paint­ed this scene from mem­o­ry, ​‘hold­ing coun­try in mind’. This paint­ing depicts Heav­it­ree Gap (Ntaripe) as he passed through North West to South from Her­manns­burg 120km west of Alice Springs to Horse Shoe Bend. Peter remem­bers this point, The Gap, as the meet­ing place for Cen­tral Aus­tralians com­ing from all direc­tions. They would say to one anoth­er, ​“I’ll meet you at the Gap at noon.” Paint­ing using water­colour is Peter’s strength. It is a medi­um he has used since he was sit­ting in the creek with the likes of Clem Abbott and Kei­th Namatji­ra, so chang­ing to acrylic paints and scal­ing up his work con­sid­er­ably to paint this mur­al was cer­tain­ly a chal­lenge, one that he has enjoyed immense­ly and suc­cess­ful­ly. by Brigi­da Steward 

“I hope you like the mur­al and you get great enjoy­ment from it.” — Peter Taylor 

A key direc­tion for Batch­e­lor Insti­tute is to work with indus­try to strength­en Voca­tion­al Edu­ca­tion and Train­ing (VET) deliv­ery in the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry. Batch­e­lor Insti­tute’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ngur­ratju­ta Many Hands Art Cen­tre is a fine exam­ple of this engage­ment. When the Alice Plaza com­mis­sioned a mur­al for the Cen­tre, Batch­e­lor Insti­tute’s Alice Springs Visu­al Art Depart­ment and Ngur­ratju­ta Art Cen­tre saw it as a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for art train­ing and skill devel­op­ment in the work­place. Batch­e­lor Insti­tute’s Visu­al Art Lec­tur­er, Brigi­da Stew­art, deliv­ered train­ing to pro­fes­sion­al land­scape painters who work in the Namatji­ra tra­di­tion, in the arts of upscal­ing and trans­la­tion of medi­um. Through this part­ner­ship the Ngur­ratju­ta artists have suc­cess­ful­ly trans­lat­ed their estab­lished art prac­tices and rich water­colour tra­di­tion into this won­der­ful­ly gen­er­ous mur­al. (Batch­e­lor Insti­tute and Ngur­ratju­ta Ilt­ja Ntjar­ra — Many Hands Art Centre)