‘Sand Hills & Burnt Country Mt. Liebig’
Acrylic on Belgian linen
120 x 120 cm
Lilly paints sandhills, wind and ‘after rain’ in her country near
Mt. Liebig and the Haasts Bluff area. She also depicts the sandhills of the Kintore
and Connistan areas. Lilly holds authority over ‘Women Dreaming’ story
associated
with Kunajarrayi.
PROVENANCE
Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu, painted 2004,
Catalogue number 23-LK-049
Neil Murphy Indigenous Art, Sydney
Catalogue number NJM04/0207
Lilly Kelly Napangardi was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory in 1948.
She moved to the newly established settlement of Papunya in the 1960’s.
During her time
there, Lilly engaged in painting activities, notably assisting with the works
by her husband
Norman Kelly.
Lilly returned to Mt.Liebig with her husband in the early 1980’s.
Lilly is now one of the senior Law Women of the community, teaching the younger
women
traditional dancing and singing. She has three children and eleven grandchildren.
Lilly began painting in her own right in the early 1980’s, winning the
Northern Territory Art
Award for painting in 1986.
REPRESENTED
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
The Holmes à Court Collection
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam
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