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Audrey Top, Women’s Business (Mavis Marks)

This funky piece of wearable art is part of our collaboration with Publisher Textiles. Each shirt is hand screen-printed and made in Sydney, Australia!

Timeless and stylish, just like its name sake Audrey Hepburn. This simple box cut top features short sleeves, a flattering rounded neck, and a long waistline.

This versatile top transitions from the office into the evening, perfect paired with a fitted pencil skirt or classic black trousers.

Featuring design by Mavis Nampitjinpa Marks showing the ‘Women’s Business Story’.

This fabric has been screen printed by hand by Published Textiles and Papers, ensuring the highest quality and longevity.

About the Makers:

Publisher Textiles & Papers is one of Australia’s leading print houses. Focused on producing original patterns through traditional hand-screen printing methods we create bold and colourful textiles, hand printed wallpaper, clothing and fabric.

Treat this handmade garment with love and it will love you back! Cold gentle machine wash, drip dry in shade, warm iron. Avoid the tumble dryer and dry cleaner.

Being handmade there may be some print variations, making each garment unique.

Hand printed and made in Sydney.

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Categories: Ikuntji Artists

Name: Mavis Marks

Community: Watiyawanu

Biography:

Mavis was born in 1945 at New Haven. She is the sister of Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Smithy Zimran Tjampitjinpa. Her sisters Yuyuya Nampitjinpa and Gina Nampitjinpa are from the same birth mother and father (Tjangala). She enjoys traveling to Walungurru (Kintore) to visit with her sister Yuyuwa. Gina lives in Alice Springs and Mavis is able to see her regularly. She moved to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) as a teenager with her mother. When she married, she moved to Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) with her husband and began to paint at the art centre there. Mavis returned to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) at the death of her husband, later moving to Papunya. She has raised five children as her own, and her daughter, Sylvana Marks, is also an artist. 

Mavis likes to paint the ceremonial dancing of ladies at Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) and represents their body painting designs. She also paints the story given to her by her grandfather of Kalipinpa, the Water Dreaming, which comes from her mother’s side. It shows the big rains travelling from West to East across the Western Desert.

She participated in design workshops in 2017 and 2018. Her designs: Women’s Business and Kalinpinpa have been part of collections with Magpie Goose and Publisher Textiles as well as being worn by various celebrities.

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