Alperstein Designs Cotton Tea Towels
Alongside our in-house Art Department, Alperstein Designs partners with leading Australian Artists and creatives to design premium lifestyle gifts.
Each collaboration is carefully developed to help you bring art into your everyday, with products that celebrate Australian creativity and design.
Our selection of Australian Made Cotton Tea towels feature designs based on the artwork of several Indigenous Australian Artists. Tea towel comes packaged with information about the artist and artwork.
- Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
NOTE: Tea towel artwork/placement varies in each tea towel so artwork placement may vary from image shown.
Sheryl Burchill - Kuku Yalanji Name: Walbul-walbul (Butterfly)
Language Group: Kuku Yalanji & Kuku Nyungkul from the traditional lands of Julaymba (Daintree), Kuna (Shipton’s Flat), Buru (China Camp) - North Queensland, Australia.
Sheryl uses her Kuku Yalanji culture to inform her knowledge of traditional stories and life style and to use contemporary means to express her ideas. Sheryl’s artwork is represented in local, national and international collections.
About the artwork:
Wurarr-wurarr (oo-ard oo-ard) is the Kuku Yalanji (Guh-guh Yell-an-jee) name for Dragonfly. Like the Dragonfly, Kuku Yalanji people feel a deep connection to our Bubu (Buh-buh).We find harmony and a place of belonging when out on our Bubu (Traditional Lands).
Mick Harding- belongs to the Yowung-Illam-Baluk clan of the Taungwurung people - a tribe of the Kulin nation. Mick was born in Melbourne.
Mick draws inspiration from the compelling legends of his people and weaves the images of those legends into each of his original artworks, which reflect the unique symbols and artifacts of South East Australia. Each of the artworks Mick creates, is linked to a legend and challenges the viewer to understand their place in the story.
About the artwork - Ngarga Warendj (Dancing Wombat) by Victorian Artist Mick Harding.
Womindjeka is what we say to friends and strangers when we welcome them onto our country. We offer them a gum leaf as their passport and they must observe Bunjils law. Bunjil the wedge tailed eagle is the creator spirit for the Kulin people.
The five gumleaves represent the five language groups that make up the Kulin Nation: Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung, Taungwurrung, Wadawurrung, and Djadjawurrung.
The shields represent our individuality and the protection of our families. All the symbols are unique to South Eastern Australia and they demonstrate connection to our country.