April Jones
April Jones spent many years teaching in Port Hedland, Broome and Fitzroy Crossing before arriving at the Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre, wanting to learn how to sew. Seven years later she began working with Marnin Studio, creating block and screen prints of local bush tucker, flora and fauna.
April Jones. Photo: Marnin Studio.
April has two designs in our Fitzroy Crossing Collection, River Stones and Rainbows. Rainbows celebrates the advent of the dry season, depicting the colourful arcs seen in the sky towards the end of the wet season.
Rainbows in ‘Pindan’, printed on our High Performance / Outdoor fabric, on the Breeze Sofa by Tait. Photo: Dave Kulesza for Tait.
April Jones’ original Rainbows woodblock print being created at Marnin Studio. Photo: Marnin Studio.
River Stones combines three natural elements local to the Fitzroy River area. It depicts the leaves of a gumtree with big nuts found on the Kimberley coast. April says, “The nuts come out at the end of Moonggoowarla (Gooniyandi), our cold weather time”. The circles in the background of the design are small stones found in the sand of the riverbed, and the small, elongated shapes represent flat pointy stones.
[L-R] Water Levels in ‘Flint’ and River Stones in ‘Native Pea’, from the Fitzroy Crossing Collection. Photo: Caitlin Mills.