 Lilly Kelly "My Country" Cat No. 4508 Size = 137 x 204 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
Lilly Kelly Napangardi
Born: 1948
State: NT
Region: Western Desert
Community: Mt Liebig, Papunya
Outstation: around Haasts Bluff
Language: Warlpiri / Luritja
Social Affiliation: Napangati subsection
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
Subjects: Women's Ceremony, bush tucker
Awards:
1986 Winner of the Northern Territory Art Awards
2003 Finalist, National Aboriginal Art Awards, Northern
Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin.
Collections:
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Holmes A Court Collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam
James Erskine Collection
Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin.
Exhibitions:
2000 Araluen Arts centre, Alice Springs
2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery (for Watiyawanu Artists), Melbourne
2003 Telstra National Aboriginal Art Awards, Northern
Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin.
Select Bibliography:
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House,
East Roseville, New South Wales. (C)
Birnberg & Kreczmanski, Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies, JB Publishing, (C).
© Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Notes:
Lilly Kelly Napangarti was born at Haasts Bluff in the Northern Territory
in 1948. In the 1960s Lily and her husband, artist Norman Kelly, moved to the newly
established settlement of Papunya. Lilly returned to Mt Liebig with her
husband in the early 1980s. Lilly is one of the most senior Law Women of the
community, teaching the younger women traditional law including dancing and singing.
Lilly won the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award for Excellence in
Aboriginal Painting in 1986.
In her most recent works Lilly paints sandhills, wind and 'after rain' in her country
near Mt. Liebig and the Haasts Bluff area, in addition to depicting sandhills of the
Kintore and Connistan areas. Lilly holds authority over the Women Dreaming story
associated with Kunajarrayi.
