TABLEWARE & LINEN

Well Placed

The perfect accompaniment for your Isolda Pink Neimeyer pintuck apron is this set of 2 placemats in the same colourful print.

Inspired by that country’s most famous architect, Oscar Niemeyer, this amazing design is full of wild botanical imagery in hot hue sand chimes perfectly with a colourful Australian sensibility.

From the original handpainted imagery through to hand construction and detailing, it speaks to a love of nature run riot. 

Material: 97% Cotton, 3% Elastane

Handmade and printed in Brazil.

Who is Oscar Niemeyer anyways?

Living until the age of 104, Oscar Niemeyer is perhaps the most famous architect Brazil has ever produced. His early take on Modernism in the mid 20th Century paid homage to his country's culture and natural organic forms and continues to influence architects, painters, surface and graphic designers in Brazil and here in Australia.

Brazil's Coral Reefs

The purpose of the tea towel is not as it once was. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas to sit in the third draw down, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist such as Ruth Stewart deserve pride of place in our own lives, whether it's as wall art hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a thoughtful and sustainable gift wrapping alternative, or to dry and shine up your delicate teacups or wine glasses.

Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)

Ruth Napaljarri Stewart paints many different themes and stories that were passed down to her by her father. Ruth is the younger sister of the successful artist Paddy Japaljarri Stewart, a senior elder at Yuendumu. Her traditional country is in the Mount Allen region of the Northern Territory.

More about the artist: 

Ruth has painted with Warlukurlangu Artists since the 1980's, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu. Her native language is Warlpiri. Her work has been exhibited far and wide and hold a permanent spot on the wall as at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France 

‘I listen and hear those words a hundred years away
That is my Grandmother’s Mother’s Country
it seeps down through blood and memory and soaks
into the ground’

Judy Watson

If you love the Judy Napangardi tea towel why not invest in a table runner to brighten up your dining area or to use as a wall hanging.

Made in Australia, these table runners are made with a mix of Polyester and Cotton, so do not wrinkle as much as cotton table runners. Less ironing for you!  With the best-selling artwork by Judy Napangardi from Warlukurlangu Artists in the Northern Territory, Australia.

- 45cm x 140cm
- 80% Polyester | 20% Cotton
- Gift Boxed with information about Artist & Artwork.
- Made in Australia

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community

Judy Napangardi Watson was born at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri & other Central & Western Desert Peoples were living a traditional nomadic life. Judy was taught painting by her elder sister, Maggie Napangardi Watson. She painted alongside her at Warlukurlangu artists for a number of years, developing her own unique style.

Judy is at the forefront of a move towards more abstract rendering of Jukurrpa, or The Dreaming,  by Warlpiri artists, however her work retains strong kurruwarri, the details which tell of the sacredness of place and song in her culture. Judy Napangardi Watson has been exhibiting artwork since 1990 throughout Australia & around the world. Her works are featured in several major collections.

Established in 1985, Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation is a not-for-profit organisation that is 100% Aboriginal-owned by its artists from the remote desert communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi in Central Australia.  

Artwork/placement varies between each table runner. Each is unique and may differ slightly from image shown.

More about the artist:

It was this design that I saw hanging from a small gift store in the Northern New South Wales town of Brunswick Heads. It appealed to me so much and led me to Alperstein Designs and their collaboration with indigenous artists, something I had been searching for. Judy's work is eye-catching, the colours and shapes mesmerising, 

Judy Watson has described her experiences of travelling to her great-grandmother’s country in north-west Queensland, as ‘learning from the ground up’. It is a philosophy she has transplanted on her several journeys and residencies abroad. A distinguished artist, Judy represented Australia at the 1997 Venice Biennale,

Watson’s matrilineal link to the country of her ancestors has always been central to her printmaking and painting. The hidden histories of Indigenous experience on the colonial frontier – particularly those of women – continue to inspire her. Watson seeks the indelible impressions of past presence on the landscape – rubbings, engravings and incisions – and subtly inscribes them upon her work. 

Through her art, Watson repatriates the human artefacts and objects of collected cultures in museum storehouses, and reveals the ‘skeletons’ in colonial ‘closets’:

This magnificent artist interview by the Tate Gallery gives us an insight into Judy's work and inspiration. Along with her pieces, Judy's journey into understanding her grandmother's and great grandmother's stories,  also helps us to confront Aboriginal history in this country. Watch out for Judy's mum Joyce. She's a national treasure!

As the textiles renaissance takes place, the role of the tea towel begins to shift. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist deserves pride of place in our own lives, whether it's hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a thoughtful and sustainable gift wrapping alternative, or to dry and shine up your delicate teacups or wine glasses.

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community.

Cotton Tea Towel
Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
Tea towel artwork/placement varies from tea towel to tea towel so each one is a little bit different.

Based on artwork by Fiona Puruntatameri from Munupi Arts & Craft Association (Tiwi Islands).

Includes information about the artist and artwork.

Drawing inspiration from their natural lush environment and Tiwi creation stories, Munupi artists employ ochres, gouache and acrylic paint. Munupi Arts and Crafts are also highly regarded for the diversity of their range of works including painting, pottery, carving, weaving, screen prints, etchings, linocut prints, lithographs and screen printed textiles.

Brighten up your dining area or to use as wall art together with Corner Block Studio's Tea Towel Frame, also made in Australia.

Made in Australia, this tea towel is made with a mix of Polyester and Cotton, so does not wrinkle as much as cotton tea towels. Less ironing for you!  Featuring the best-selling artwork by Coral Hayes Pananka.

Cotton Tea Towel
Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
Tea towel artwork/placement varies from tea towel to tea towel so each one is a little bit different.

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community

Artwork/placement varies between each table runner. Each is unique and may differ slightly from image shown.

More about the artist:

If you love the Coral Hayes' tea towels why not invest in a table runner to brighten up your dining area or to use as a wall hanging.

Made in Australia, these table runners are made with a mix of Polyester and Cotton, so do not wrinkle as much as cotton table runners. Less ironing for you!  With the best-selling artwork by Coral Hayes Pananka.

- 45cm x 140cm
- 80% Polyester | 20% Cotton
- Gift Boxed with information about Artist & Artwork.
- Made in Australia

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community

Artwork/placement varies between each table runner. Each is unique and may differ slightly from image shown.

More about the artist:

If you love the Coral Hayes' tea towels why not invest in a table cloth to brighten up your dining area or to use as wall art.

Made in Australia, this table cloth are made with a mix of Polyester and Cotton, so does not wrinkle as much as cotton table runners. Less ironing for you!  With the best-selling artwork by Coral Hayes Pananka.

- 140cm x 240cm
- 80% Polyester | 20% Cotton
- Gift Boxed with information about Artist & Artwork.
- Made in Australia

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community

Artwork/placement varies between each table runner. Each is unique and may differ slightly from image shown.

More about the artist:

Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community

Artwork/placement varies between each cushion cover. Each is unique and may differ slightly from image shown.

More about the artist:

Coral Hayes [Hughes] was born in Balranald NSW and is a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people of the Mooroopna/Shepparton region of Victoria.

Coral’s totem is the long neck turtle which her mother Kitty Smith Murray and her grandmother Alice belongs to. Coral is also a descendant of the central Arunta people of Alice Springs, her totem is also the eagle called Ertija which belongs to her grandmother Julie Hughes which Coral is proud to belong to, in respect of her Ancestors.

Coral’s father Billy Hughes' totem is the green caterpillar Yeperenye whom he was very proud of. Coral now paints with full respect of her ancestors that are now in the dreaming. 

Coral has a book showcasing her work entitled Mutti Mutti Dreaming by Ian Hewitt.

Coral is very true to her culture and takes the time to paint stories that have been handed down to her from her mob.

As the textiles renaissance takes place, the role of the tea towel begins to shift. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist deserves pride of place in our own lives, whether wall art hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a thoughtful and sustainable gift wrapping alternative, or to dry and shine up your delicate teacups or wine glasses.

Betty has been painting with Artists of Ampilatwatja since 2013. She draws her inspiration from the country where she goes hunting or looking for bush yams and bush bananas, “sometimes I just like to go out there to see country”.

Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)

The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999 near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The work produced by the artists is recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities, due to the application of fine dots and the often bright, figurative depiction of the land. 

7" Fine Bone China Plate
Based on artwork by Betty Pula Morton. 
Presented in a giftbox featuring information about the artist and artwork.

Betty has been painting with Artists of Ampilatwatja ((pronounced um-bludder-witch) )since 2013. She draws her inspiration from the country where she goes hunting or looking for bush yams and bush bananas, “sometimes I just like to go out there to see country”.

Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)

The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999 near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The work produced by the artists is recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities, due to the application of fine dots and the often bright, figurative depiction of the land.