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ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Gladys Kuru Bidu Lunch Tote
Regular price £14.00
DELIVERY WEEK BEGINNING 25th November 2024
Is it a hangbag? No it's a lunch bag? Well it's gorgeous enough to be both. Carry your lunch around in this handy yet stylish and artistic insulated bag with handles.
Insulated lunch bags are a great way to keep your lunch cooler for longer, encouraging you to not only eat healthier but to save money -current cost of living and all! The bag pays for itself in that regard.
Insulated lunch totes have easy zip access at the top and slip pockets on the front and rear. Featuring artwork, reproduced under license by Gladys Kuru Bidu, courtesy Martumili Artists.
Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist.
Details:
- Featured artwork: 'Detail from 'Wantili (Warntili, Canning Stock Route Well 25)'', by Gladys Kuru Bidu, courtesy Martumili Artists.
- Bag size: 25cm x 15cm x 22cm
- Polyester Fabric
- All over print (print placement may vary between bags)
- Insulated main compartment with zip closure.
- Includes information about artist and artwork
- Please note that artwork/placement varies between tea towels so each tea towel placement is a little bit different and may vary from image shown.
Martumili Artists was established by Martu people living in the communities of Parnpajinya (Newman), Jigalong, Parnngurr, Punmu, Kunawarritji, Irrungadji and Warralong, and it draws on strong influences of aboriginal art history. The artists and their families are the traditional custodians of vast stretches of the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts as well as the Karlamilyi (Rudall River) area. Most Martu people maintain an entirely independent, nomadic desert lifestyle until the 1950s and 1960s when they walked into settlements in response to a long and severe drought. Today, Martu people live in their own communities and regularly visit regional centres such as Newman and Port Hedland.
UCON ACROBATICS | Matteo City Bag Stealth Black
Regular price £42.00The Aloe Series is crafted from an innovative waterproof material made of 93% recycled PET plastic bottles which is custom developed by Ucon Acrobatics. This product offers sleek solid colors but also features reflective bands to boost visibility at night when illuminated by a light.
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SO YOUNG | No Sweat Ice Pack
Regular price £7.00So Young design beautiful, eco-friendly and NON-TOXIC products that inspire healthy eating choices and empower you to be your best self.
The So Young No-Sweat Ice Pack in Cacti Desert is a sweat-proof ice pack that is compact, functional and toxin-free. This size fits perfectly in SoYoung's lunch boxes and cooler bags, or they can be used with any existing school lunch box, storage container, picnic basket and insulated shopping bag for extra cooling.
These adorable and functional ice packs keep your food and drink cool throughout the day.
Available in modern and playful designs, you can feel reassured as you pack your own or your family's lunches that So Young's No Swear Ice Packs are free from BPA, PVC, and phthalates. In fact the removable inner ice pack is filled with wter and non-toxic cellulose gum (the stuff that thickens foods!).
Dimensions:
18cm x 10cm x .6cm
200ml
ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Chris Black Cotton Socks
Regular price £1,566.00
These cotton socks are based on artwork by Chris Black from Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association. They will have you hemming your pants way high. Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association are an incorporated non-profit, Tiwi governed organisation that was established in 1989. Jilamara is in the remote aboriginal community of Milikapiti, overlooking the Arafura Sea, on the north coast of Melville Island, the larger of two Islands that make up the Tiwi Islands.
Cotton Socks
Size: 8-11
Made in Australia.
More about Chris Black
Chris Black was born at Milikapiti Community, where he has spent the majority of his life. He is part of a large clan, consisting of three main families – the Bush, Black and Brown family names make up the majority of the Miartuwee Clan.
Chris attended high school at Kormilda College in Darwin. On return to Milikapiti, Chris was nurtured by his Aminayi (Grandfather) Black Joe who was a renowned Tiwi artist. Chris remembers this wise old man very well. Black Joe was a great carver, artist, spear-maker and culture man who created Tiwi songs for Chris when he was young. When Chris attends ceremony with family he sings these songs that were given to him by Black Joe. The memory of his aminayi is the main influence on his arts practice today. Looking at old designs painted in his grandfather’s era inspires Chris greatly and gradually over time he has become one of the exciting emerging artists currently working at Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association.
Also known as ‘Kojak’, he creates colourful compositions of jilamara (Tiwi body paint designs), various types of fish found around Melville Island and the Jarrangini (Buffalo). He paints his unique contemporary styles with natural earth pigments collected from around Milikapiti and processed by hand at the art centre. White and yellow ochre are collected and ground into a fine powder, the yellow is then cooked on an open fire into the red that make up the three main colours of the Tiwi palette. Chris’ unique style has caught the attention of many people in recent times and one of his limited-edition prints was recently licensed as a tattoo through the Copyright Agency – a poetic creative development that speaks to the body art (jilamara) foundations of Tiwi art making styles.
More about Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association
Jilamara artists are renowned for producing innovative contemporary works based on traditional ceremonial body painting designs, clan totems and Tiwi creation stories. Artists work from a palette of natural ochres to produce paintings on linen, canvas, paper, printmaking, weaving, bark & carved wood.
Over the course of three decades Jilamara artists have established themselves among the most recognised Indigenous artists nationally and internationally. With the support of the art centre, these artists have played a key role in cultural maintenance and renewal for the Tiwi people.
You can support the Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association directly by donating via their website 
Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community.
