Watiya Tjuta - Velvet Embroidered Toiletry Bag (Yellow, Teal and Pink)

Watiya Tjuta - Velvet Embroidered Toiletry Bag (Yellow, Teal and Pink)Watiya Tjuta means trees. Mitjili Napurrula spent her life painting the trees of the Western Desert. She passed away in April 2019. This carries her Watiya Tjuta design. Every purchase goes directly back to Mitjili's estate and the community of Haasts Bluff. 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 governedthe first art

Napurrula remembers

When Alice was a small girl she travelled this Country with her family

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

At the same time my mother could feel me moving inside her

including the Snake and Water Dreaming

laying in wait

120 reed dupion silk - luminous and iridescent

Agnes Multa

the ceremonial spear straightening in Uwalkari country (Gibson desert region)

Alice describes the big swamp of Takupalangu

sharp enough to dress up

Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design is printed on this wrap dress