Lee-Anne Williams. Photo: Design Within Country.
Lee-Anne Williams, of the Bunuba and Wangkatjunka language groups, grew up around creativity – her two grandmothers and both parents are all artists. She began her career painting boab nuts at Marnin Studio and then moved onto screen and lino printing on textiles before being a founding member of the 2017 Design Within Country fashion project. Lee-Anne aspires to running her own fashion business in order to support her community.
Designs from the Fitzroy Crossing Collection, including Water Levels in ‘Desert Cotton’ [wallpaper] and ‘Flint’ [curtain]. Photo: Caitlin Mills.
Lee-Anne Williams’ design for our Fitzroy Crossing Collection is called Water Levels. The line work references the marks that remain on the rocks of the Fitzroy River, after flood water levels rise and fall.
[L-R] Water Levels in ‘Flint’, Spinifex in ‘Cloud’ (rolled), and River Stones in ‘Native Pea’, from the Fitzroy Crossing Collection. Photo: Caitlin Mills.