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,...
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.