[5] Kngwarreye's paintings are described by leading international art academics as being equal to the works of Monet and great abstract artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko.

After being held in a private collection, Earth’s Creation was purchased by the Mbantua Gallery & Cultural Museum at the Lawson-Menzies auction in Sydney on 23 May 2007 for $1,056,000.

It was exhibited in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Darwin before heading to Alice Springs, where it had never been displayed publicly.

In 2015 the work was exhibited in the Giardini Central Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, "All the World’s Futures", curated by Okwui Enwezor.

[10] Earth's Creation was sold at auction in 2017 to New York-based dealer Tim Olsen for a client for $2.1 million, breaking the record it had set in 2015 for the highest sale price achieved by an Australian female artist.