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Audrey Top, Trees at Talaalpi (Blue and orange on pink cotton linen), Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon

This funky piece of wearable art is part of our collaboration with Publisher Textiles. Each top 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 artist Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon

This design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts the trees in Alice’s country, Talaalpi. Her country is situated close to Kintore on the Western Australian border. She grew up there and moved to Haasts Bluff later in life.

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: Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon

Community: Haasts Bluff

Biography:

Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near and a little bit to the east of Walungurru on the Western Australian border. Prior to her painting Alice worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching the young girls dancing and the traditions of the desert people. Alice started painting on the "Minyama Tjukurrpa" - the Kintore Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project. As a painter she is inspired by her rich cultural heritage, and thrives when involved with her stories and lore. Alice is an active "dancing woman" who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and "Women's Law" meetings. Alice's tjukurrpa is the porcupine or Tjilkamala. Her story is told in bright colours often utilizing orange and yellow to mirror the ochres that are used in ceremonial body painting. In her tjukurrpa story there is often the porcupine scurrying about rock holes and hiding places looking for tucker while nearby the women are themselves hunting, laying in wait for the porcupine. Alice is a keen hunter and likes to go hunting with Eunice Jack. Alice's father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, who was one of the original Papunya Tula painters. His Tjukurrpa is Pungkalungka at Takpalangu. Pungkalungka's are dangerous, and sometimes kill and eat people. They live in huge caves in the hills. Alice only paints the entrance to the caves to signify the unknown danger of the monster that dwells within. Her father's country is Ngurrapalangu, and her tjukurrpa has passed to her from this place - the porcupine was travelling through the sand hills and passing near the two carpet snakes, kuniya kutjarra, who were living underneath the water. Alice also enjoys the other crafts and is involved in producing hand-spindled hairstring for ceremonies and ininti necklaces and mats. She regularly goes out bush to collect ininti seeds then laboriously pierces them with hot wire to make beads for necklaces, bracelets or mats.

Dixon passed away in December 2020. 

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