Painting traditional stories handed down from her father, Margaret Loy Pula (b. 1956) depicts her homeland, bush foods and ceremonial designs using a series of finely detailed dots. She paints her culture and her father’s Dreaming. Her primary story is “Anatye” or Bush Potato Dreaming. These paintings portray a plant that is an important food source to the Anmatyerre people of Central Australia.
Margaret has been exposed to art for most of her life, having grown up in a small community where she still resides. Margaret uses a limited palette of colours and precisely applies series of fine, microscopic dots. Her artworks usually take the form of an abstract, aerial perspective of her Country where the bush potato grows.
Margaret has won a number of art awards including the prestigious Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize in South Australia, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, the Paddington Art Prize and the Redland Art Prize among others.