Lilly Kelly Napangardi
(Australia 1948– )
- Language group
- Pintupi, Western Desert region , Luritja, Centra Desert region
- Title
- Sandhills
- Place of origin
-
Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) →
Northern Territory →
Australia
- Year
- 2002
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on linen canvas
- Dimensions
-
180.0 x 180.0cm
- Credit
- Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund for Contemporary Aboriginal Art 2003
- Accession number
- 6.2003
- Copyright
- © Lilly Kelly Napangardi
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Born at Haasts Bluff in 1948, Lilly has country in the Haasts Bluff area. She is also associated with the Women's Dreaming at Kunajarrayi. She came to the newly established settlement at Papunya in the early 1960s as a young girl and remained in the settlement for many years before moving to Mount Leibig, where she now resides with her husband, Norman Kelly, also a painter. They have three children and five grandchildren. A Luritja speaker, she painted for Papunya Tula Artists since the mid- 1980s and her work is included in the Araluen Trust's collection of western desert paintings. In 1986 she won the Northern Territory Art Award.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2003
- Bibliography (2)
-
'Aboriginal art: aquisitions by Australia's public museums and galleries' by Alison Harper, pg. 612-614., Art and Australia (Vol. 41, No. 4) Jun 2004-Aug 2004, Jun 2004-Aug 2004, 613.
'Gruner lives! Old works a hit with young viewers' by Alicia Parlby, pg. 12., Look Dec 2003-Jan 2004, Dec 2003-Jan 2004, 12.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Lilly Kelly Napangardi: recent works from Mt. Liebig, Neil Murphy Australian Indigenous Art, Nov 2002–15 Jan 2003.
