Graham has painted families fishing during the season of Bangkerreng (April) when the fish begin to swim upstream and are plentiful around Gunbalanya Western Arnhem Land where the artist lives. The bininj (men) use mankole (spears) to catch the fish that swim through the mandem (waterlilies) in the kulabbarl (billabong). Graham has depicted namarnkol (barramundi) and namarddakka (nail fish), two popular game fish featured in the rock art of the region. The barramundi is particularly prized and there are lots of dreaming sites in clan countries in Arnhem Land. Men and women will say "My Dreaming is Barramundi, it placed itself in my country." Graham Badari's country is Maburrinj, in the rocky escarpment country about 120 kilometres east of Gunbalanya. He draws artistic inspiration from this environment, but also paints the Dreamings of his Mother Country, Djurlka, where he spent time as a young man near the outstation of Marmardawerre.