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MARGARET LOYPULA

Margaret Loy Pula paints experiences. Her sometimes austere and at other times vibrantly colourful paintings record the rhythms of her Anmatyerre culture through fine dots. The dots begin in the centre of her paintings, and move in a weblike spread, creating their own geometric shapes, spaces and sizes as bear witness to Pula’s stories. Earlier this year she was awarded the Arthur Guy Memorial Prize and in September she was the winner of the Tattersall’s Art Prize in Brisbane. Last month in her first exhibition at Marc Straus Gallery, New York, she was shown with the Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch. And this is where ARTIST PROFILE begins the conversation.

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