Watiya Tjuta - Shell Top (Silk) Fabrics director and artist at Ikuntji

director and artist at Ikuntji Artists

and taught dancing and desert traditions at Kintore School before she began painting

137cm wide

Wide-leg culottes with an elastic back waist

Watiya Tjuta - Shell Top (Silk) Fabrics director and artist at IkuntjiThis shell top is printed with Mitjili Napurrula's design, which depicts the Watiya Tjuta the acacia trees of Uwalkari country in the Gibson Desert used to make kulata (ceremonial spears). This is her father's Tjukurrpa, passed down to her by her mother, who first drew it for her in the sand. Mitjili was born in 1945 at Papunya and began painting at Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1992, winning the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1999. Mitjili passed away in