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BIOGRAPHY
Lilly Kelly
Napangardi
work is in high demand and paintings
represented by major private and public
collections throughout the world including the
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)
visit
www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/lily_kelly_napangardi.
Lilly Kelly won
the prestigious Telstra Art Award in 1986 and
was selected in 2002 as well as 2003.
July 24th 2007 in Melbourne
Sotheby's
sold
Lily Kelly Napangardi
painting for
$39,600
AUD,
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(Important
Aboriginal Art auction,
Lot 167 'Sand hills around Mount Leibig
2004'.
COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of South
Australia
Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney
Homes
a Court Collection, Perth,
Australia
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Kerry Stokes collection,
Perth, Australia;
Kelton Foundation USA;
Thomas Vroom Collection
Amsterdam;
James Erskine;
Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund Contemporary
Aboriginal Art;
Lilly Kelly Napangardi was born circa 1948 in the Haast Bluff region of the
Northern Territory. She lived at the newly established settlement of
Papunya for much of her early life, relocating to Mt Liebig with her
husband in the early 1980's.
Born around 1948, Lilly Kelly Napangardi is from
Mount Liebig, and is a senior law woman of the
Watiyawanu community, Haasts Bluff. Lilly moved
to Papunya in the 1960's, and was later noted
for the assistance she gave to her husband, the
painter Norman Kelly. She began painting in the
1980's.
Lilly Kelly
Napangardi hypnotic 'Sand Hills' paintings are
made up of fine dots and dashes, their muted
tones building up a mysterious, hidden
topography of her land.
Lilly Kelly
Napangardi holds authority
over the "Women Dreaming " story associated with Kunajarrayi.
Throughout this time Lilly assisted her
husband Norman Kelly with his paintings, becoming an artist in her own
right in 1986 when she began painting for Papunya Tula artists.
Lilly
depicts stories from the Haasts Bluff and Kunajarrayi region, her
traditional country, for the Watyawanu Art Centre. Lilly is a respected
senior law woman of the community imparting knowledge of traditional
songs and dancing to the younger generation. Lilly portrays commanding
innovative interpretations of her traditional country. Her most recent
works are skillful representations of sand hills in their various forms.
Lilly's works are in high demand and are represented in major private
and public collections throughout the world.
Lily Kelly Napangardi Sandhills of Kintore
area 2003 is in the collection of Australian National Gallery of Queensland
www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/lily_kelly_napangardi
She is a senior law
woman of the Watiyawanu community, in the Haasts Bluff area of the
Northern Territory, 325 kilometers north-west of Alice Springs. She
holds authority over the Women's Dreaming story associated with
Kunajarrayi, and is now teaching younger women traditional dancing and
singing. Her subjects include her country's sand hills, its winds and the
desert environment after rain, especially the sandhills of the Kintore
and Connistan areas. Her paintings often note the seasonal changes in
this sandy landscape, and the crucial waterholes found in the rocks in
the area. In this mysterious and elemental landscape, the features, such
as rock holes and even mountain ranges, seem to appear and disappear
with the changing winds and blowing sands. Water marks this land, as the
run-off from the rains makes a pattern of lines and striations down the
surface of the sand hills. Napangardi notes the finest microcosmic
details but embeds these into a macrocosmic view of the landscape. The
ephemeral nature of this drifting, changing country is Lily Kelly
Napangardi's key subject, and the viewer, walking in front of her
painting, can sense something of the immersive experience of her
country.
Selected
Exhibitions:
1999
Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs
2000 Graham Marshall
Gallery, Adelaide
2001 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs;
2002 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs.
2002 Telstra Awards;
2003 Telstra Awards
2003 Neil Murphy Indigenous
Art showing at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2003
Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide;
2003 Telstra Awards; 2003 Neil Murphy Indigenous Art Span Galleries,
Melbourne;
2003 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs;
2004 Neil Murphy Indigenous Art showing at Span
Galleries, Melbourne,
2004 Mary Place Gallery, Sydney;
2004 Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide;
AWARDS:
In 1986 she won the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award, selected
for 2002/2003 Telstra Award
COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Queensland Brisbane Sand hills of Kintore area 2003
www.qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/lily_kelly_napangardi
The
Kerry Stokes
Collection, Australia;
National
Gallery of Australia
Canberra;
Art
Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney;
Art Gallery of South
Australia - Adelaide;
National Gallery of Victoria -
Melbourne;
Holmes A Court Collection Perth;
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Darwin; Art bank Sydney;
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA; Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam;
James Erskine Collection; Mollie Gowing Acquisition
Fund for Contemporary Aboriginal Art 2003; Thomas Vroom Collection,
Amsterdam;
corporate
and private collections around the world.
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