Short Biography:

Margaret Sanders was born in Western Australia and worked as a historian before studying Printmaking at the ANU Institute of the Arts.

Margaret has lived in Adelaide since 1994 where she has been involved in a range of community arts and curatorial projects which have concerned print and paper-based art works.
Her recent work has been a series of investigations of the dry country of southern Australia, Across the Mallee,(2002) On the Sandplain,(2004) Floribundant, (2005) and Extant,(2006).
Margarets linoprints detail the patterns of indigenous vegetations and ecologies of place with aspects of settlement and landscape change.

Margaret is a member of the Section 1 artist group.