Damien and Yilpi Marks Tea Towel

This colourful cotton tea towel is based on artwork by Aboriginal artist, Damien and Yilpi Marks

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community and the tea towel is packaged with information about the artist and artwork.

This is a teaching painting, describing a dry season in Damien’s homeland, Mount Liebig, in the Northern Territory. It illustrates aspects of landscape and culture that was told to Damien by his great-grandparents. Women sit with children collecting bush potatoes (the red shapes at the top of the painting) and are preparing for inma (ceremony). One man, wati, sits down with his waru (spear). Controlled burnings are taking place as the spinifex is dry, and this means good fruits can grow. The small star-like symbols represent women’s body paint that the women paint on each other for inma. A dry creekbed runs through the painting (in red and white), and there are cracks in the claypans, dried rockholes (tjukula), and sandhills (tali).

Size: 62.5cmX 42.5cm

Cotton

Ethically made in India