In the 1980s, a German woman living in Alice Springs, Australia, began to create molded and kiln-fired clay figures, using the ochres from the surrounding countryside. She enlisted Aboriginal women artists to paint traditional dot motifs on each animal form. Twenty years later, the selection includes echidnas, wombats, kangaroos, koalas. koalas with kits, goannas, goannas on a limbs, crocodiles, turtle boxes with removable carapaces as lids, platypuses, frilly neck lizards, vases and boxes. A few of these pieces, painted with different patterns are presented below. Wouldn’t one look good in your home or office?

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