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Yalka Hand Screen Printed Linen Tea Towel

This painting shows the Yalka Dreaming (bush onion) which is situated in a place called Analy, close to Town Bore Outstation. Bush onions grow after the rain and are collected by all the women. The yalka are found underneath the surface and can be eaten raw or cooked in the hot sand next to the campfire. Paintings referring to this Dreaming show diverse motifs such as plants, leaves, seeds, layers or roots.

This tea towel has been screenprinted by hand at Ikuntji Artists, and heat set for a lasting, ethical and sustainable piece of functional art.

Because all of our tea towels are printed on site, please allow for slight variation in prints and ink.

100% linen

Categories: Ikuntji Artists

Name: Ann Lane nee Dixon

Language: Luritja

Community: Kintore

Biography:

Ann was born in Alice Springs and grew up in Papunya where she attended school. Her mother is Jocelyn Nampitjinpa, a Warlpiri woman and her father is Benny Tjapatjari from Warakurna in the NPY lands of Western Australia. Ann remembers a long time ago, when her father would walk with camels to Hermannsburg with rations for the people. There was a film made about her father, “Benny and the Dreamers” (1992) that tells the story of Benny and other Pintupi men.

Ann met her husband and fellow painter, Joseph Lane, a long time ago when he worked as a stockman between Glen Helen, Haasts Bluff and Pupunya. The two lived between Haasts Bluff, Papunya and Kintore as they raised their three children. For a time, they also lived at Pirrnpirrnga (desert bore) outstation, where her father is from. Ann says she has been painting for a long time now. She remembers sitting and painting at the old Ikuntji Art Centre with the old men and women, amongst them, Eunice Napanangka Jack and Mitjili Napurrula. She remembers that they used to make a fire inside the art centre and sometimes sleep there overnight.  Ann painted for Papunya Tula artists for some time, but has been painting for Ikuntji now since 2001. She predominantly paints the Tjukurrpa from her father’s country, Pirrnpirrnga - Desert Bore, depicting the surrounding tali tali (sand hills) with bold lines, overlayed with fine dot work in varying colours. Her father, Benny, used to paint that same story. Ann is now the only one in her family that paints. She regularly comes in to the art centre and paints for hours at a time, often with husband Joseph Lane sitting with her, sometimes painting too. 

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