MAGDELINE PAYNE NUNGALA (1980 - ) (UTOPIA Region)
Hand Signed, Original Acrylic On Canvas
(Can be Hung Horizontally or Vertically - Stunning)
Title: Anwekety (Bush Plum)
Image Size: 94cm x 94cm
Signed: Verso
Condition: Excellent - New
Stretched and Ready to Hang.
Comes with Certificate of Authenticity from Martinez Art Dealer.
You can also come view this work and many others in our Surry Hills Gallery in Sydney. Please message me to arrange a time to view in person.
Serafin Martinez
Principal, Martinez Art Dealer
Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
ABN 36 561 407 649
Magdeline Payne Nungala was born in 1980 in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and grew up in Boundary Bore Utopia, an expansive culturally and artistically significant Indigenous homelands region in the Northern Territory.
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.
Magdeline is 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, the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Magdeline's painting style often takes after her mother-in-law Josie's, depicting aspects of the Bush Plum Dreaming story. This is a layered story, incorporating the strong winds that scatter the anwekety (Bush Plum) seeds all over the ancestral country, bringing life to the desert landscape and the abundance of the anwekety, also known as bush plum or conkerberry - a sweet black berry that is favoured by Indigenous people for its sweet taste and nutritional value.
The fine, brightly coloured dots can also represent the various stages of the bush plum ripening.
Magdeline has a striking contemporary style, experimenting with sharp-edged forms that are softened by her great sense of colour and intricacy of carefully placed dots.
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