Willie Weston Singing Bush Medicine ‘Dusk' design for upholstery, featuring contemporary floral artwork by First Nations artist Colleen Ngwarraye Morton from Ampilatwatja, NT.
Sofa upholstered in Willie Weston Singing Bush Medicine ‘Dusk' design, a contemporary floral artwork by First Nations artist Colleen Ngwarraye Morton from Ampilatwatja, NT.
Willie Weston Singing Bush Medicine ‘Dusk' design for upholstery, featuring contemporary floral artwork by First Nations artist Colleen Ngwarraye Morton from Ampilatwatja, NT.
Willie Weston Singing Bush Medicine ‘Dusk' design for upholstery, featuring contemporary floral artwork by First Nations artist Colleen Ngwarraye Morton from Ampilatwatja, NT.
Sofa upholstered in Willie Weston Singing Bush Medicine ‘Dusk' design, a contemporary floral artwork by First Nations artist Colleen Ngwarraye Morton from Ampilatwatja, NT.
Willie Weston Singing Bush Medicine ‘Dusk' design for upholstery, featuring contemporary floral artwork by First Nations artist Colleen Ngwarraye Morton from Ampilatwatja, NT.

Singing Bush Medicine 'Dusk

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COLLEEN NGWARRAYE MORTON

Singing Bush Medicine by Colleen Ngwarraye Morton is from our Ampilatwatja Collection and represents a ceremony performed by women to celebrate bush medicine through dancing, singing and painting the body in ochre. This design is about singing to country, singing the bush medicine and edible seeds into existence, and sourcing and maintaining them.

Repeat height: 53.41cm / 21.02"
Repeat width: 99.62cm / 39.22"

Minimum Order: 5 metres (or 2-5 metres with small order fee of $75)

Lead time: 3-5 weeks

COLLEEN NGWARRAYE MORTON

Singing Bush Medicine by Colleen Ngwarraye Morton is from our Ampilatwatja Collection and represents a ceremony performed by women to celebrate bush medicine through dancing, singing and painting the body in ochre. This design is about singing to country, singing the bush medicine and edible seeds into existence, and sourcing and maintaining them.

Repeat height: 53.41cm / 21.02"
Repeat width: 99.62cm / 39.22"

Minimum Order: 5 metres (or 2-5 metres with small order fee of $75)

Lead time: 3-5 weeks

Specifications

  • Composition: 100% polyester
    Weight: 315gsm
    Printed roll width: 140cm / 55.11”

    Applications
    General commercial upholstery, heavy residential upholstery, wall panelling, soft furnishings

    Performance
    Abrasion resistance: 50,000 Martindale rubs (AS 2001.2.25-2006)
    Colourfastness to light (print): 5+ (ISO 105-B02)
    Colourfastness to rubbing (print): wet 4+ / dry 4+ (ISO 105-X12)
    Fire retardant (AS 1530-3)

    Environmental
    Printed in Australia using water-based inks
    VOC and PFAS free
    OEKO-TEX ECO Passport
    OEKO-TEX (Standard 100 certified)

    Treatments
    Anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and water repellent

  • Composition: 100% polyester
    Weight: 320gsm
    Printed roll width: 135cm / 53.14”

    Applications
    General commercial upholstery, heavy residential upholstery and soft furnishings

    Performance
    Abrasion resistance: 80,000 Martindale rubs (ISO 12947)
    Colourfastness to light (print): 6+ (ISO 105-B02)
    Colourfastness to rubbing (print): wet 4+ / dry 5 (ISO 105-X12)
    Fire retardant (AS 1530-3)

    Environmental
    Printed in Australia using water-based inks
    VOC and PFAS free
    OEKO-TEX ECO Passport
    OEKO-TEX (Standard 100 certified)

  • Indoor Weave Specifications

    Velvet Specifications


Black and white portrait of Indigenous woman in bushland with plants all around her, holding out her hands to show the seeds in them.

Colleen Ngwarraye Morton. Photo: Lara Damiani / Artists of Ampilatwatja.

Four Indigenous women stand on Country near Ampilatwatja, a remote Indigenous community located approximately 325 km northeast of Alice Springs. The dirt is red and they are surrounded by grasses and trees and a blue sky.

[L-R] Colleen Ngwarraye Morton, Rosie Ngwarraye Ross, Margaret Ngwarraye Long and Beverly Pula Luck near Ampilatwatja. Photo: Lara Damiani. 

About Colleen Ngwarraye Morton


Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP)
This design is based on an original artwork by Colleen Ngwarraye Morton. It may embody traditional knowledge of the artist’s community. Through best practice legal agreements, Willie Weston is authorised to adapt and reproduce this artwork on our fabrics, wallpapers and other interior products. Dealing with any part of the design for any purpose that has not been authorised by the artist is a serious breach of customary laws of First Nations communities and may also breach the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).