Women's Business Fabric - Blue on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cm

Women's Business Fabric - Blue on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cmThis design by Mavis Nampitjinpa Marks shows the 'Women's Business Story'. Mavis was born in 1945 at New Haven and moved to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) as a teenager with her mother. She was the sister of Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Smithy Zimran Tjampitjinpa, and her sisters Yuyuya Nampitjinpa and Gina Nampitjinpa are from the same birth mother and father. When she married, she moved to Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) with her husband and began to paint at the art

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

’ Tiwil turned around to make a fire and the two Tjangalas ran off with the snake

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

a founding member of Ikuntji Artists who painted at Papunya Tula since the 1970s

This Anita dress is printed with Pam Brown's design

and generous side pockets

women cut their own hair and spun it on their thighs to create string for dancing

falling below the knee

Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon's rockholes and sandhills

the younger brother behind)

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

light and easy to wear on its own or layered