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Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design on this fabric depicts Takupalangu, west of Kintore - her father Uta Uta Tjangala's Country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). Takupalangu is a big swamp filled with bush vegetables called mungilpa. When Alice was a small girl she travelled this Country with her family, her mother collecting mungilpa and pummelling it into damper. Alice's Tjukurrpa is the porcupine - Tjilkamala - scurrying about the rockholes and sandhills looking for tucker, while nearby the women are hunting, laying in wait.
Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, close to Walungurru on the Western Australian border, and taught dancing and desert traditions at Kintore School before she began painting. Her father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, one of the original Papunya Tula painters.
A robust, tightly woven cotton drill with real weight and substance. Holds colour beautifully and softens with age. 100% cotton, 148cm wide, 195gsm.
Screen printed by hand in Australia. Available by the 50cm. Every purchase goes directly back to the artist and the community.Make something with it. A dress. A cushion. Curtains. A piece of the Western Desert, made by your hands.
Every purchase from Ikuntji Artists goes directly back to the artist and the community of Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed - the first art centre in the Western Desert founded by women, for women, in 1992.
Care: Gentle cold or warm hand wash. Do not bleach, warm rinse well, do not tumble dry, line dry out of direct sunlight, warm iron. Wash dark colours separately.
Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design on this fabric depicts Takupalangu, west of Kintore - her father Uta Uta Tjangala's Country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). Takupalangu is a big swamp filled with bush vegetables called mungilpa. When Alice was a small girl she travelled this Country with her family, her mother collecting mungilpa and pummelling it into damper. Alice's Tjukurrpa is the porcupine - Tjilkamala - scurrying about the rockholes and sandhills looking for tucker, while nearby the women are hunting, laying in wait.
Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, close to Walungurru on the Western Australian border, and taught dancing and desert traditions at Kintore School before she began painting. Her father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, one of the original Papunya Tula painters.
A robust, tightly woven cotton drill with real weight and substance. Holds colour beautifully and softens with age. 100% cotton, 148cm wide, 195gsm.
Screen printed by hand in Australia. Available by the 50cm. Every purchase goes directly back to the artist and the community.Make something with it. A dress. A cushion. Curtains. A piece of the Western Desert, made by your hands.
Every purchase from Ikuntji Artists goes directly back to the artist and the community of Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed - the first art centre in the Western Desert founded by women, for women, in 1992.
Care: Gentle cold or warm hand wash. Do not bleach, warm rinse well, do not tumble dry, line dry out of direct sunlight, warm iron. Wash dark colours separately.
