Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon is no stranger to painting popular artworks but next year, as well as enjoying her paintings, people will be able to wear them as part of a new collaboration with well-known women's clothing brand Gorman.
Key points:
- Central Australian artist Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon will have her work featured in a Gorman collection next year
- It is one of many more commercial collaborations to come for Ikuntji Arts in Haasts Bluff
- It comes as the art centre is getting back on its feet after production halted earlier this year due to coronavirus
Ikuntji Artists, an art centre based in the remote community of Haasts Bluff, confirmed Ms Dixon's work was chosen as one of the winners of the Gorman Clothing collaboration competition out of 3,000 entries.
Ms Dixon's brightly coloured depiction of her Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) shows the porcupine man travelling around Talaalpi, west of Kintore, looking for ants.
"Meanwhile tracking behind him are women out hunting, hoping to make the porcupine their tucker for the evening," the certificate of authenticity reads.
"These holes fill with water, the rain and the morning dew, [and] over many years they have become rock holes."
The win means a capsule collection featuring the artwork will be available in 2021.
Ms Dixon said she was happy that her painting was chosen, and it will make her proud to see people wearing it.
The fashion brand's founder, Lisa Gorman, said since visiting Fitzroy Crossing and the Mangkaja Art Centre last year she had found herself increasingly drawn to Aboriginal art and culture.
"The textiles team and my process of selection involved researching each artist we had short-listed, and the story of this piece and of Alice's life interested us greatly.
"We knew it would make for an incredible collaboration."
Art Centre boost
Art Centre manager Chrischona Schmidt said it was not the first fashion collaboration Ikuntji Arts has had, but it was the first one involving digital printing.
"What we've just had is a fashion collaboration with Magpie Goose, where they actually use our screen-printed fabrics to make garments, that was released in November," Dr Schmidt said.
Dr Schmidt said the collaborations were helping put the art centre on the map, especially the most recent one with Gorman.
She said the fashion collaborations were just the beginning of potential commercial partnerships.
"We've been approached by quite a few different companies in the past year, we first started with home decor and have also gone into a parentship with Tessuti Fabrics," she said.
"There are different ways we can engage through the screen-printing that we're doing."
Dr Schmidt said the art centre was just getting back on its feet, after being closed for the past few months due to coronavirus travel restrictions with no art production happening during that time.
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2020-06-22 20:58:22Z
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