Magdeline Payne Nungala was
born in 1980 in Atitjere or Harts Range, located approximately 215km north-east
of Alice Springs. She is the daughter-in-law of well-respected Utopian artist
Josie Petrick Kemarre, who was also the granddaughter of renowned artist Emily
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 creates deliberate shapes and experiments with sharp-edged
forms that are softened by her great sense of colour and intricacy of carefully
placed dots.