Tali Tali Sandhills Fabric - Pink on Wine (Tencel Linen) 50cm

Tali Tali Sandhills Fabric - Pink on Wine (Tencel Linen) 50cmThis design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon shows the Tali Tali Story. This painting shows the artist's Tjukurrpa, the Tali Tali Dreaming. It refers to the vast and desolate sandhills of her country near Taalalpi, 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 is still of great spiritual

Comfortable enough for every day

The tightly structured patterning of the key motifs and bold use of colour demonstrates the artist’s confidence in her individual artistic vision within a family of superlative artists – and the cultural heritage that continues to inform the myriad expressions of Western Desert artists

The painting refers to her mother's Dreaming west of Kintore

on their way to women’s business

From the tali tali

who travelled from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) to the west of Kintore

My paintings are about my story and my mother’s…I like to paint

The old ladies can sing the boogey men and women so that they come

From the top of the tali tali

providing sustenance for her porcupine

This is my secretive tradition men's story which tells of events which happen at a place called Yarapilangu

Tupa Tjakamarra gave her the right to paint works related to Ilyingaungau in the Gibson Desert