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Cotton Socks – Puli Puli

These groovy socks feature the ‘Puli Puli’ design by Keturah Zimran, and comes from our collaboration with ethical makers, Better World Arts.

In this work Keturah depicts the natural rock formations (puli) found in and around Haasts Bluff as well as combining it with her childhood memories of her mother’s country of Lake Macdonald in Western Australia.

Packaged in Craft Paper with zero plastic. One size fits most.

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Watiya Tjuta Modal Scarf (Grey)

This exquisite Lenzing Modal scarf is the result of a fair trade project between Better World Arts, Ikuntji Artists and artisans in India. Beautifully made in fine modal a fibre derived from nature, LENZING™ Modal fiber types have been certified as compostable and biodegradable under industrial, home, soil and marine conditions, thus they can fully revert back to nature.

Artwork Story:

‘Watiya Tjuta’ Napurrula’s father, Tupa Tjakamarra gave her the right to paint works related to Ilyingaungau in the Gibson Desert. This site, south of Walungurru (Kintore), some 520 kilometres west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), is where the artist’s Mutikatjirri ancestors assembled their kulata (spears) for a conflict with the Tjukula men. Allusive works that refer to the straightening of kulata by Tjupurrula are among the landmark paintings of the Ikuntji Artists movement’s 30-year history.

The paintings of Napurrula and her husband, Long Tom Tjapanangka, have come to be understood as archetypical of Ikuntji art since they began to work with the arts centre in 1993. Napurrula remembers, ‘ … After I got married, my mother taught me my father’s Tjukurrpa in the sand, that’s what I’m painting on the canvas’. The white pigment eddies around abstract forms that refer to the spearwood trees. The tightly structured patterning of the key motifs and bold use of colour demonstrates the artist’s confidence in her individual artistic vision within a family of superlative artists – and the cultural heritage that continues to inform the myriad expressions of Western Desert artists.

Mitjili paints the Watiya Tjuta tree. Mitjili’s style is unique and recognisable. The Watiya Tjuta in Mitjili’s paintings is her father’s Tjukurrpa (dreaming) in Ilyingaungau country (Gibson Desert). This was passed down to her by her mother, Tjunkayi Napaltjareri when story telling, using the same to draw the story as it is told in the traditional way. She remembers “…After I got married, my mother taught me my father’s Tjukurrpa in the sand, that’s what I’m painting on the canvas”, a women’s interpretation.

Better World Arts has been operating for over two decades. They work with traditional artisans from remote regions in Kashmir, Peru, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal (Tibetan refugees). They work with Australian Aboriginal artists from remote communities across Australia, from Arnhem Land to Central and the Western Desert regions, from rural locations and from cities.

Better World Arts are endorsed members of the Fair Traders Association of Australia and New Zealand.

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Tali Tali – Sandhills

This painting shows the artist’s Tjukurrpa, the Tali Tali Dreaming. It refers to the vast and desolate sandhills of her country near Taalalpi, which is located beyond the Kintore/Kiwikurra road near the West Australian and Northern Territory border. This is the country where her father and mother used to travel by foot when she was a young girl. The place is still of great spiritual significance to Alice and her father’s family as it contains both, personal and tribal law to which Alice relates in her work. Water has collected in between the sandhills, providing sustenance for her porcupine. The tjikamamta (porcupine) is Alice’s own personal tjukurrpa (dreaming). She returned to her country for a visit in late 2005.

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Napaltjarri Sisters

Maluya tells the story of significance to her skin name Napaltjarri. The Napaltjarri sisters descend from the seven stars and begin to roam the earth, searching for bush tucker and collecting dew.

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Napaltjarri Sisters

Maluya tells the story of significance to her skin name Napaltjarri. The Napaltjarri sisters descend from the seven stars and begin to roam the earth, searching for bush tucker and collecting dew.

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Waru

This work by Alison shows the bushfire tracking across vast areas of the desert, causing destruction but also renewing the landscape. It was common for Luritja people to set fire to the spinnefix as a means of controlling the harsh desert, using it to stimulate new plant growth of seeds and fruit, and to attract large game such as the Red Kangaroo who come to eat the new grass shoots.

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Waru

This work by Alison shows the bushfire tracking across vast areas of the desert, causing destruction but also renewing the landscape. It was common for Luritja people to set fire to the spinnefix as a means of controlling the harsh desert, using it to stimulate new plant growth of seeds and fruit, and to attract large game such as the Red Kangaroo who come to eat the new grass shoots.