Margaret Kundu Ngan'gikurrunggurr, b. 1945

Margaret Kundu is a senior artist at Durrmu Arts. Margaret was born c. 1945 in the Daly River region and moved to Peppimenarti after its establishment in 1976. She still lives there with her 6 daughters and many grandchildren. Margaret started painting in 2001 and became renowned for her sun-mat paintings: acrylic expressions of the traditional woven decorative mats. Since then her work has been exhibited in group shows in Darwin, Adelaide, Sydney, the Mornington Peninsula, Singapore and Hong Kong. Margaret also paints durrmu (body painting dot) and bush tucker designs, including the water lily leaves, stalks and roots found on the floodplains surrounding Peppimenarti.