With NAIDOC week underway, we are choosing some of our own favourite and most popular indigenous designed fabrics to showcase for you. 

Today"s fabric is Dancing Spirit by Colleen Wallace. Dancing Spirit represents the sacred dance of ancient aboriginal ancestors since the time of creation. In dancing, these aboriginal spirits pay their respects to Mother Earth, expressing their love and spiritual and cultural connection to this continent.. 

Colleen Wallace is from Utopia, Central Australia and has been painting since the 1990s. She was raised by Kathleen Wallace and her husband Douglas. Kathleen Wallace is an influential and highly regarded Keringke Arts who has played a pivotal role in art production, teaching and supporting emerging artists and encouraged Colleen to try her hand at painting in the early 1990’s. Another strong influence was her mother-in-law, the well-known Utopian artist Ada Birdt Petyarre, very significant in the development of the Utopian art and one of the first women to move from traditional art depiction to silk and then canvas. 

Colleen is known for her precise dot work and vibrant colours and her work has been exhibited and purchased not only in Australia but also internationally. Dancing Spirit has remained one of Misty Threads' most popular aboriginal fabrics. It is much loved not only for quilting but also for clothing, homewares and even over canvases as artwork. As one of our feature fabrics, Dancing Spirit can be found here and will be on sale this NAIDOC week until 30 November for $14.00 per metre.