Damien and Yilpi Marks Bandana - Family and Country

Damien and Yilpi Marks Bandana - Family and Country

Better World Arts

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A colourful bandana featuring artwork by Aboriginal artists, Damien and Yilpi Marks. The design depicts the desert landscapes of Damien's home country around Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory.

  • Design by Indigenous artist, Andrea Adamson
    The artist receives monthly royalties
  • Fair Trade
  • Made in India
  • Andrea Adamson design also available here

About the Artwork

This is a teaching painting, describing a dry season in Damien’s homeland, Mount Liebig, in the Northern Territory. It illustrates aspects of landscape and culture that was told to Damien by his great-grandparents. Women sit with children collecting bush potatoes (the red shapes at the top of the painting) and are preparing for inma (ceremony). One man, wati, sits down with his waru (spear). Controlled burnings are taking place as the spinifex is dry, and this means good fruits can grow. The small star-like symbols represent women’s body paint that the women paint on each other for inma. A dry creekbed runs through the painting (in red and white), and there are cracks in the claypans, dried rockholes (tjukula), and sandhills (tali).

Better World Arts

Better World Arts facilitates cross cultural art projects between Aboriginal artists in Australia, and artisans in Kashmir and India. The Aboriginal artists are paid royalties for their designs, and the artisans in India work in conditions that encompass the 10 Principles of Fair Trade, including receiving a fair wage, working in safe conditions, and ensuring there is no child labour or forced labour.

Read more about Better World Arts here.

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