Margaret Gudumurkuwuy is a talented and experienced artist from Galiwin’ku, the main community on Elcho
Island. Her traditional homeland is Gundalmirri. She is married to Sandy Pascoe and together they have three children and five grandchildren.
Margaret is known for her painting and carving skills and her past works include hollow logs, sculptures and paintings on bark and canvas, as well as more recently woven fibre works and jewellery.
Margaret has worked as an art centre assistant at Elcho Island Arts where her role included assisting with translation, documenting traditional culture and knowledge, natural materials collection, and artist liaison.
In 2009 Margaret commenced reduction wood block printmaking with printmakers from Basil Hall Editions. Her work included in the Elcho Elements exhibition depicts the salt water currents found in the waterways surrounding Elcho Island.
In 2010 Margaret participated in the Yuta Badayala project and exhibition. Yuta Badayala (New Light) is the product of a joint project between Sydney based design company, Koskela, and Yolngu women fibre artists working with Elcho Island Arts in North East Arnhem Land. The aim of the project was to give Yolngu women the opportunity to transfer their traditional weaving techniques onto new forms so that long-held cultural practices and art making skills could be seen ’in a new light’. The project also aims to develop new markets for Indigenous fibre art.
