art

Winged Spirit of the Dreaming

Acrylic on Canvas
2005
100cm x 100cm

This painting is a representation of the Great Spirit...in the form of a faceless bird.

* This painting is currently being displayed at Menslink ACT

Turtle - Spiritual Transformation of the Dreaming

Acrylic on Canvas
2003
60cm x 70cm

Creation of Life

Acrylic on canvas
2003
60cm x 70cm

This painting tells the story of human life being breathed into existence.

* This painting is currently being displayed at Menslink ACT

Dhungutti Dreaming

Arcylic on canvas
2003
150cm x 100cm

This painting is a depiction of the creation of my ancestral lands, the lands that belong to the Dhungutti Nation. Situated on the mid north New South Wales coast, at and around Kempsey, including the Macleay River, the Smoky Range, South West Rocks, Cresent Head.

Creator

Acrylic on Canavas
4 Panels
2005
37cm x 27cm

Makara

Acrylic on Canavas
3 Panels
2005
35cm x 27cm

The Makara is a Dreaming story of the constellation of Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. Here are three of the sisters.

* Re - titled

Wuriupranili The Sun Women

Acrylic on canvas
2007
100cm x 80cm

Painted in the design of the Aboriginal Flag

Re - Birth - Bushfire Dreaming

Acrylic on Canvas
2006
35cm x 27cm

artwork titled by Mundara

The Journey winds on. My Journey home. To a place and people I know only in Dreams. Tracing my Footprints in the Land of the Dispossessed. A Journey of Art, of Words, of Spirit...A Journey of Life.
A journey shared.
~ Margy Duke ~

Noahs Car

Acrylic on canvas
2007
40cm x 40cm

This was painted for our 2 yr old son Noah, who has an undying love and addiction of cars.

A little bit of Urban Dreaming.

Women's Heart Songs

acrylic on canvas
2007
30cm x 30cm

Title and Dreaming Story for this artwok has been written by Yvon

Spirit Owl Bird
acrylic on canvas
2007
40cm x 40cm

The wise owl, here he is depicted as a mythical creature....being part owl, part water bird and in communication with other spiritual beings above him

Creation I & II

acrylic on canvas 2 canvas set
2007
30cm x 30cm & 40cm x 40cm

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Sister Stars and the Warrior Moon

acrylic on canvas
2007
40cm x 40cm

Titled by Mundara

Stop the Hate

Reconcilliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal brothers and sisters

Flag of the Aboriginal Nation

Flag of the
Maori Nation

Artist Bio

Margy is an emerging contemporary Aboriginal artist and writer and her works are increasing in popularity. Margys artwork is spiritually and meditationally inspiring and flows with the passion of ancestral voices. Her style is beautiful and unique and provides the viewer with powerful connections to the Dreaming.

Margy, A member of the Stolen Generations, was born in Paddington NSW in 1968 to an Aboriginal/Maori mother, whom herself had been taken from her own mother in the early 1950's. Her mother being taken to Cootamundra Girls Home, the brothers to Kinchela Boys Home.

Margy grew up in Leura, Blue Mountains with her adopted family of 7, totally unaware of the fact that she was Aboriginal. After a family move to Bathurst (country NSW), she suddenly had an awareness of being different and indeed was treated as an outsider. At the stormy age of 13, the Department of Welfare finally told her of her Aboriginality. Information that plunged her into a spiral of chaos and a fight for identity that would last to this day.

2006 was a year of "homecoming" for Margy. After years of searching for her Aboriginal family, and fighting the many conflicting emotions that walk hand in hand with dispossession and a stolen identity, Margy, along with her husband Bryan and her children "Came Home" to her ancestral lands of the "DHUNGUTTI"... and was welcomed into the lives of her Aboriginal family at Kempsey and South West Rocks Mission. What a day for truth and healing!

Margy paints from her spirit, from her soul and from her heart. Though her connection to her people had been severed all those years, her spiritual connection remained strong, and its from that spirit that she paints now.

Margy encourages each viewer to discover the interpretation in each painting that is relevant to them on a personal level and to their own life and life journey.

Margy lives with her husband and 4 of their 5 children in Canberra, Australia

Margy wishes to thank Mundara and his wife Yvon, for their mentoring and contributions

Dolphins
Souls of the Deep

Acrylic on canvas
2007
40cm x 40cm

Dolphins, mystical and spiritual creatures that live and breath upon the earth but who operate beyond the known physical and spiritual dimensions around us.

If you look close you will see 5 dolphin swimming