Alice Nampitjinpa – Rockholes (hand printed)

• Size: Cushion cover: 40 x 40 cm (16 x 16 inches)
• Fabric: Linen (front) and cotton (back)
• Colour: The base cloth is red and the inks are metallic gold and black
• Design story supplied with each cushion cover
• Closure is invisible zipper

*Please note that each cushion is unique and the placement of the design is different and wonderful on each item.

Design: This design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts Takupalangu west of Kintore. This is Uta Uta Tjangala’s country, which he has painted throughout his career. Nampitjinpa paints her father’s country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). There is plenty bushtucker – mangilpa, which are little black seeds around. The road to Kiwirrkurra passes Takupalangu on the side.
Alice describes the big swamp of Takupalangu, in her Fathers country. Takupalangu is filled up with bush vegetables called mungilpa. When Alice was a small girl she travelled this country with her family. Her mother used to collect mungilpa and pummel it into dough which she made into damper. It is also a good place for hunting bush meat as the swamp is surrounded by rock hills. Her country is situated close to Kintore on the Western Australian border. She grew up there and moved to Haasts Bluff later in life.
The artist is paid royalties for every metre printed.
Alice was a member of Ikuntji Artists, Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australian

Made from fabric hand screen printed in Australia by Publisher Textiles, Sydney.

Cushion made by Mrs Pichreay as a fair trade project in Cambodia by Flying Fox Fabrics.

The artist’s family is paid royalties for every metre printed.