Born: 1925 (d. 2004)
Language: Warlpiri
Region: Tanami Desert NT

Maggie lived at Yuendumu, she was another of the senior Warlpiri women whose interest in rendering traditional women’s designs in western materials was one of the driving forces behind early experiments with canvas at the settlement. Among the younger women she inspired and instructed was her young sister Judy Watson Napangardi, who went on to become far more famous than her mentor. Maggie’s work was included in the first exhibition of Yuendumu paintings at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs in October 1985. She had since shown in numerous exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists in cities around Australia, as well as in the Karnta exhibition at Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, 1987 and Yuendumu: Paintings out of the Desert , SA Museum, 1988.

Courtesy of Vivien Johnson 2011

Image courtesy of Warlukurlangu Artists