Margaret Inyika Wells
Margaret is a senior painter working at Ernabella Arts. Her vibrant, intricate paintings of country and landscape mirror her exuberant personality. She holds deep knowledge of culture. She spends her weekends collecting honey ants and witchetty grubs with her grandchildren on nearby homelands.
Margaret was born in her father’s country at Haasts Bluff, and later moved to Papunya when the new settlement was created there. She went to school in Papunya before moving to Areyonga with her family. She finished school there and then went to Darwin for twelve years and trained as a nurse. She returned to Alice Springs and reunited with family. She then moved to her mother’s country in Pukatja (Ernabella) with her brother, senior artist, Kunmanara Jangala Carroll. She later married in Ernabella and now has six grandchildren.
- courtesy Ernabella Arts
Margaret was born in her father’s country at Haasts Bluff, and later moved to Papunya when the new settlement was created there. She went to school in Papunya before moving to Areyonga with her family. She finished school there and then went to Darwin for twelve years and trained as a nurse. She returned to Alice Springs and reunited with family. She then moved to her mother’s country in Pukatja (Ernabella) with her brother, senior artist, Kunmanara Jangala Carroll. She later married in Ernabella and now has six grandchildren.
- courtesy Ernabella Arts
Margaret Inyika Wells
75 x 76 cm
$1360