Magdeline Payne Nungala b. 1980

Magdeline Payne Nungala was born in 1980 in Atitjere or Harts Range, a small community approximately 215km north-east of Alice Springs. She is the daughter of Jean Petyarre, the youngest of the famous Petyarre sisters. Acclaimed artists Ada Bird (dec.), Nancy (dec.), Gloria (dec.), Kathleen (dec.) and Violet Petyarre are her aunties. She's also the daughter-in-law of well-respected Utopian artist Josie Petrick Kemarre, who was the granddaughter of one of the most famous Australian artists, Emily Kame Kngwarreye. 

Magdeline often paints like Josie, depicting the strong winds that scattered the anwekety (Bush Plum) seeds all over her ancestral country. The fine coloured dots can also represent the various stages of the bush plum ripening.

Magdeline has an effortlessly contemporary style, experimenting with sharp-edged forms that are softened by her great sense of colour and intricacy of carefully placed dots.