Watiya Tjuta - Lacquerware Egg Fabrics Cool to the touch

Cool to the touch

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

They also work with Australian Aboriginal artists from remote communities across Australia

120 reed dupion silk - luminous and iridescent

She was a powerful law woman

Watiya Tjuta - Lacquerware Egg Fabrics Cool to the touchWatiya Tjuta means trees. Mitjili Napurrula spent her life painting the trees of the Western Desert. She passed away in April 2019. This carries her Watiya Tjuta design. Every purchase goes directly back to Mitjili's estate and the community of Haasts Bluff. Every purchase from Ikuntji Artists goes directly back to the artist and the community of Haasts Bluff. Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation is 100% Aboriginal owned and governedthe first art