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LILLY KELLY NAPANGARDI (born 1948)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
136 x 185 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’ stories associated with
Kunajarrayi.

PROVENANCE
Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Aboriginal Corporation, Alice Springs,
painted 2006, Certificate number 77-06336

Lilly Kelly was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory in 1948 and moved to the
newly established settlement of Papunya in the 1960’s. During her time in Papunya,
she engaged in painting activities, notably assisting with works by her husband
Norman Kelly and returned to Mt. Liebig with her husband in the early 1980’s.
A senior Law Woman of the community, she teaches the younger women singing and
dancing. 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
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
James Erskine Collection
Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam