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Town Camp Designs is a collection of products created by Ewyenper Atwatye, Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists.


We are a 100% Aboriginal owned and run art centre. All sales directly support the artists, with all profit going towards artists fees and future projects. 

This design was created by Trudy Inkamala. Trudy says of the work:

This is Old Polly walking with her dilly bags looking for bush tucker to share with her family. She made those dilly bags out of her old ration clothes. This cheeky bird was bothering her and hoping to steal some of her bush foods.

Trudy is a senior artist at Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists is the vibrant beating heart of the Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Established in 2000 as a response to the chronic social issues the community were facing at that time, it has now, after many years of hard work and love, become an internationally recognized Art Centre. The beautiful soft sculptures that the Centre is renowned for, made from recycled bush dyed blankets, stitched and embellished, are held in major public and private collections across Australia and Internationally.

 Working in soft sculptures, textiles, etchings and film this small but dynamic Art Centre has given opportunity, voice and income to people that too often find themselves marginalized.

Rich in personality and defiance, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists continues to be shaped by the artists and community that hold it so strongly and proudly as their own.

Categories: Tangentyere Artists

Name: Trudy Inkamala

Language: Luritja

Biography:

Trudy has lived at the Inkamala Block and participates in the Yarrenyty Arltere arts program with her sectional sister Dulcie Sharpe. The two women spend time together either at the Block, or at Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp. They are both senior artists with Yarrenyty Arltere Artists operating out of their Town Camp.

Yarrenyty Arltere Artists deliver arts activities within Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp through Tangentyere Artists, the Aboriginal Art Centre delivering arts activities, skills development, support and representation to Alice Springs Town Camp Artists. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists create hand dyed and hand embroidered soft sculptures, unique hand embroidered blanket jewellery, and and cyano-type dyed silk scarves, along with prints on paper. Yarrenyty Arltere Artists are constantly exploring creative ways to communicate their sense of identity, and their sense of place in the world with their audience.

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