Margaret Scobie (born 1948 in Woola Downs, Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia[1]) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs.
[2] Scobie is from one of the most famous Aboriginal artistic families,[3] related to other Aboriginal artists such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye (her aunt), Gloria Petyarre (first cousin), Kathleen Petyarre, Anna Petyarre, and Ada Bird Petyarre.
[4] Margaret Scobie was educated at Ross Park Primary School in Alice Springs.
[1] She was introduced to painting at "Awelye" ceremonies and has been a painter for most of her life.
[7] Most of her artworks depict bush medicine leaves, spinifex grass and Awelye.