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Fat Quarter IK – Trees – blue/green on black (linen)

$27.50 inc. GST

 

Lovely print at an ideal scale for patch-work and quilting

The image is a Fat Quarter folded.

Playful design hand screen-printed on quality ‘Tuscany’ 100% linen. Excellent weight for clothing and homewares.

Designed by an Aboriginal artist from Haasts Bluff in Central Australia. Made by Ikuntji Artists. Printed in Australia.

 

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Description

  • Ink colors: Blue and apple green
  • Base cloth color: black
  • Composition: Tuscany linen
  • Dimensions: 66 x 50 cm (26 x 19.7 inches)
  • Weight of base cloth: 210 gsm
  • The artist is paid royalties for every metre printed.
  • Tag with story details supplied

About the artist: Kumuntjayi (Alice) Nampitjinpa Dixon (dec)

Alice was a Luritja and Pintupi artist; born in 1943 near Talaalpi: country east of Walungurru on the Western Australia / Northern Territory border. Alice is an established artist who has exhibited widely around Australia and the world. Her late father, Uta Uta Jangala, was one of the original Papunya Tula painters. Prior to painting, Alice worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching the young girls dancing and the traditions of the desert people. Alice remains an active “dancing woman” who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and “Women’s Law” meetings. She was a lead singer in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Alice’s personal Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) is Tjilkamata – the porcupine. Her story is told in bright colours often utilising orange and yellow to mirror the ochres that are used in ceremonial body painting. In her Tjukurrpa story there is often the porcupine scurrying about rock holes and hiding places looking for tucker while nearby the women are themselves hunting, laying in wait for the porcupine

Art story: Watiya Tjuta at Talaalpi

This design shows the acacia trees in Alice’s country, Talaalpi, which is located beyond the Kintore/Kiwikurra road near the West Australian and Northern Territory border. This is the country where her father and mother used to travel by foot when she was a young girl. The place was of great spiritual significance to Kumuntjai and her father’s family as it contains both, personal and tribal law to which Kumuntjai related in her work. When it rains at Taalalpi, water collects between the sandhills, providing sustenance for her porcupine.

Tjilkamata (porcupine) was Kumuntjai’s own personal Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). She returned to her country for a visit in late 2005.

Alice passed away in late 2020. She was one of the co-founders and is a great loss.

Ikuntji Artists: the first art centre established by women in the Australian Aboriginal Western Desert Art Movement. Already in the 1980s women began painting in Haasts Bluff in the aged care facility. They had been instructed by their husbands and fathers, and they had often assisted them in completing their paintings. By the early 1990s these women artists decided to pursue setting up their own art centre. Ikuntji is an Aboriginal owned, non-profit Aboriginal Corporation.

Printed by:
Publisher Textiles & Papers in Sydney is one of Australia’s leading print houses. Focused on producing original patterns through traditional hand-screen printing methods they create bold and colourful textiles, hand printed wallpaper, clothing and fabric. www.publishertextiles.com.au

Fabric care instructions:
Gentle cold/ warm hand wash. Do not bleach, warm rinse well, do not tumble dry, cool iron only, dry cleanable (P).

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Length

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