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Kuruyultu Screen Printed T-Shirt (Wine Red Hemp)

Artist

  • Eunice Napanangka Jack Eunice Napanangka Jack 22 artworks

Medium

Antique white ink on wine red organic hemp t-shirt

Catalog no.

ej-hemr-02-kuruyultu1-s

Category

Screen Printed T-shirts

Price: $70.00

Description

This beautiful T-shirt has been screen printed by hand at Ikuntji Artists onto an organic t-shirt (ONNO Ethical t-shirts), and heat set for a lasting, ethical and sustainable piece of wearable art.

Because all of our shirts are printed on site, please allow for slight variation in prints and ink. T-shirt colours may also vary slightly due to the natural fibres and dyes used by ONNO in their production process.

Artwork Story

‘Kuruyultu’

‘This is my country. I can’t remember how it all happened, because it happened before I was born. I have a scar on my back from it. My grandfather speared a wallaby at Kuruyultu. That night he ate that wallaby. At the same time my mother could feel me moving inside her. She was heavily pregnant with me. That next morning, after my grandfather had speared the wallaby, killed it and eaten it, I was born. I was born at Kuruyultu, near the rockhole there. I can’t remember my grandfather or my grandmother. I was still a little baby. We left that place, Kuruyultu. My father, my mother, my big sister and my father’s brother, we all left together and went to Haasts Bluff. I grew up in Haasts Bluff. I have been back to Kuruyultu for visits but I never lived there again in my country. I think about it every day. Only my father knows all the stories for that country and he painted them too… all the men’s stories. I know the story of the wallaby mother and daughter which left me with a birthmark. That’s what I paint: the wallaby mother and daughter.’

T-shirt care instructions:

We recommend that you wash your shirt inside out to avoid any damage to the print. ONNO t-shirts shrink when washed hot and dry hot, to preserve the fit of your shirt, please wash cool and line dry.

ONNO Size Chart (Inches)

Chest:

XS 32-34
S 35-37
M 38-40
L 41-43
XL 44-46
2XL 47-49
3XL 50-52

For chest and bust measurement, measure under your arms around the fullest part of your chest.

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    Daphne Marks paints her country, the Tjukurrpa of Daphne Marks paints her country, the Tjukurrpa of the Yalka (Bush Onion).
Daphne was passed down the right to paint the Yalka Tjukurrpa at Karrkurutinytja (Bush onion dreaming at Lake Macdonald) from her grandmother, Narputta Nangala Jugadai. Narputta, who was a founding member of Ikuntji art centre and a prolific painter, was born close to this sight.
Daphne says,
 “My grandmother, Narputta used to make that painting. She told me that story. I used to work here (Ikuntji Women’s Centre) as a cook. I came to learn here. I saw my grandma painting. I learnt from her. She told me that story…Yalka…Bush food…For a long time those old ladies have been looking for Yalka, digging for Yalka, taking the fruit, cooking it in the fire. We cook them just a little bit, like Maku (witchetty grub). I have been looking for that Yalka with my grandmother.”
    Herman Whiskey paints the Tjukurrpa story handed d Herman Whiskey paints the Tjukurrpa story handed down from his father to him: Kakalayla.
This is the story in my father’s country of Pirrupa Kaala. It is the story of the white cocky (circle middle on top) with mako (witchetty grubs) in its mouth. The eagle (left bottom) brought malo (kangaroo) meat (circle left top) for the white cocky as she had a broken wing. But a crow (circle right side bottom) chased the white cocky all over the country because the white cocky had such a big mob of mako. The crow started to hit the white cocky with a nulla nulla and called her greedy. The eagle helped the cocky and chased the crow away. So it happend that the eagle came to stay with white cocky for a little while. But on day he said: ”Oh, I am going home to find another place to stay”, and left the white cocky behind to stay there by herself for good.
Find these two works by him on our website www.ikuntji.com.au and link in bio.
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Tomorrow we farewell our elder, mother, grandmother, esteemed artist and cherished community member Ms Nampitjinpa Dixon.
If you want to pay your respects please come to Ikuntji /Haasts Bluff Church at 10.30am on Monday, 25/1.
Please note the art centre will be closed on Monday.
Artwork by Ms Nampitjinpa Dixon 
Photo by @art.ark
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To tune in and watch the live broadcast, simply head to @indigenousfashionprojects on Facebook at 7pm AEDT on Friday 22 Jan. 

A look into the intimate showcase that was held on Larrakia country late last year, along with a glimpse into the stories of the artists and designers behind the collections, this is not to be missed. 

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This was in 2009, taken by Keturah Zimran: her husband Billy Pareroultja and their son Rocky traveled to Brisbane for an exhibition opening of their works!
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