Watiya Tjuta - Flared Skirt - Black on White (Tencel Linen)

Watiya Tjuta - Flared Skirt - Black on White (Tencel Linen)This flared skirt by Mitjili Napurrula depicts the Watiya Tjuta the acacia trees of Uwalkari country in the Gibson Desert used to make kulata (ceremonial spears). This is her father's Tjukurrpa, passed down to her by her mother, who first drew it for her in the sand. Mitjili was born in 1945 at Papunya and began painting at Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1992, winning the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1999. Mitjili passed away in April 2019. Her designs

The ininti grow abundantly in Muruntji country where the artist has spent much time collecting the seeds

Kungkaku puturru is connected to the Tjukurrpa place Kungkayunti (Brown's Bore)

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

The women turned into stone

the ancient hot springs at the edge of the Simpson Desert

This pinafore by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts Takupalangu

and the lines between them are the tracks of animals looking for water

Her father's brother Tjungarrayi Kingsley was one of the first painters at Papunya in 1971

Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governed

comfortable enough for every day

the place where all the ancestral Arrernte women come to rest after travelling from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) to Kintore and past Kulpitarra (Outstation)

This Ingrid top is printed with Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's design