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Mug – Damien & Yilpi Marks – Family and Country

$19.50 inc. GST

Quality ceramic mug that will brighten your day.

Vibrant design from an original painting by Damien & Yilpi Marks

Holds 380 ml or 13 oz made from Bone China

Mug is shipped in a box with information about the artist and design.

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Description

Design Story

This design is from an original painting of Damien’s country, Mt. Liebig, west of Papunya. Damien’s great grandfather and his family are travelling through the desert towards Kintore, collecting food. In the bottom right hand corner the sun is setting over a hillside. The family stops to camp at different places along the way. The red concentric circles are dry rockholes, and the blue and white concentric circles represent rockholes that are filled with clean water, that flows on into the creek. The red stripes coming out of the centre of the right hand side of the painting lead to one of these waterholes – these are the tracks of the family walking through the sand. In this painting you can also see spinifex bushes (the yellow star-like symbols), and dry claypans with cracks in the earth.

Manufactured by Better World Arts (South Australia) – accredited by the Fair Trade Association of Australia

Royalties on sales are paid to the artists/their families.

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