Bettrina Pula Bundey b. 1983

Bettrina was born in Irrultja in 1983, and now lives in Ampilawatja, a remote community some 500km north-east of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Irrultja and Ampilawatja are situated in the expansive Indigenous homelands of Utopia in Central Australia, a region of great cultural and artistic significance that has seen the emergence of some of the greatest Aboriginal artists in the scope of the contemporary industry. Bettrina lives with her husband Tony Morton, an artist and sculptor, and their two daughters.

Bettrina enjoys painting landscapes using the traditional dotting method of the Central & Western Desert regions, while maintaining a defined figurative element to her plant designs. Bettrina's paintings are adorned with bush foods and flowers, native birds, and medicinal plants that are abundant in her ancestral country. She sometimes includes the figures of women looking for tucker. Bettrina enjoys collecting the leaves of native botanicals and making bush medicine; as a young girl, she was taught by her parents how to prepare different kinds of medicine and use it accordingly. The leaves can be dried and crushed into a fine powder to mix with animal fats to create a topical paste, soaked in liquid to create a healing drink, or boiled in water so the soothing vapours can be inhaled.