Margaret Scobie (born 1948 in Woola Downs,

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, Australia) is an

Australian Aboriginal Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia (co ...

artist from the

Anmatyerre The Anmatyerr (also spelt Anmatyerre, Anmatjera, Anmatjirra, Amatjere and other variations) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory, who speak one of the Upper Arrernte languages. Language Anmatyerr is divided into Eas ...

community, just north of

Alice Springs Alice Springs () is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; it is the third-largest settlement after Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin and Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston. The name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William ...

. Scobie is from one of the most famous Aboriginal artistic families, related to other Aboriginal artists such as

Emily Kame Kngwarreye Emily Kam Kngwarray (c.1914-1996) was born in her Ancestral lands, Alhalker located in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory, Australia. One of the world’s most significant contemporary painters to emerge in the twentieth century Kngw ...

(her aunt),

Gloria Petyarre Gloria Petyarre (1942-2021), also known as Gloria Pitjara was born in Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia. She was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs. One of her best known works is "Bus ...

(first cousin),

Kathleen Petyarre Kathleen Petyarre (born Kweyetwemp Petyarre; c. 1940 – 24 November 2018, Alice Springs) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. Her art refers directly to her country and her Dreamings. Petyarre's paintings have occasionally been compared to t ...

, Anna Petyarre, and Ada Bird Petyarre. Margaret Scobie was educated at Ross Park Primary School in

. She was introduced to painting at "Awelye" ceremonies and has been a painter for most of her life. Scobie's painting is to be found in a number of art galleries including the Aboriginal Art Store, the Clare Valley Art Gallery, Didgeridoo Hut & Art Gallery, Doongal Aboriginal Art, Galeria Aniela, and Gallery Gondwana. Most of her artworks depict

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leaves,

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and Awelye. Margaret Scobie has three daughters and one son.

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External links

Margaret Scobie at Artnet

Margaret Scobie at Aboriginal Art

Margaret Scobie at Aboriginal Art Galleries

Margaret Scobie at MutualArt
* https://aboriginalartpaintings.com/the-artists/margaret-scobie {{DEFAULTSORT:Scobie, Margaret 1945 births Living people Australian Aboriginal artists People from Alice Springs Artists from the Northern Territory 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian painters 21st-century Australian women artists Australian women painters 20th-century women painters 21st-century women painters

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