Kuruyultu (Pink) - Doris Day Dress

Kuruyultu (Pink) - Doris Day DressThis Doris Day shift dress by Eunice Napanangka Jack depicts her father's Country at Kuruyultu a rockhole in Western Australia where she was born. Eunice Napanangka Jack was born in 1940 at Lupul in the Sir Frederick Ranges. Her mother carried her piggyback all the way from Western Australia to Haasts Bluff as a little girl. Eunice began painting with the opening of the Ikuntji Women's Centre in August 1992 and is now represented in leading galleries

This design by Zakius Jack shows the ‘Wilkinkarra Story’ (Lake Mackay)

That night he ate that wallaby

This design is about the artist's grandmother's place

double pleating for shape

Recommended care instructions: Always dry clean for silk Dupion

that’s what I’m painting on the canvas’

Those women turned into stone and can be seen today

This carries her design

Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed—the first art centre in the Western Desert founded by women

Northern Territory

Her mother used to collect mungilpa and pummel it into dough which she made into damper

light and easy to wear on its own or layered