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Lilly Kelly Napangardi (B. 1948 - ) BIOGRAPHY

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Artist: Lilly Kelly Napangardi (1948-)

Title: White
Sand Hills after Rain 99-313
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Size: 90 x 86 cm
Certificate 799-313
Price (export): $15,000

Artist: Lilly Kelly Napangardi (1948-)

Title:
Sand Hills after Rain 77-1005
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Size
stretched: 158 x 98 cm
Certificate 77-1005
Price (export): $35,000

Artist: Lilly Kelly Napangardi (1948-)
Title:
Sand Hills after Rain 77-919
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian Linen

Size stretched: 158 x 125 cm
Certificate 77-919
Price (export): $36,000
 
Artist: Lilly Kelly Napangardi (1948-)
Title: Sand Hills  
77-214  
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 150 x 60 cm

CERTIFICATE 77-214
Price: 
SOLD
 
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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, CONVERT CURRENCY
(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 - SydneyArt 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.

       

Title:       Sand Hills after Rain  77-919
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian Linen

Size stretched: 158 x 125 cm
Provenance: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community of Amunturrngu
, Haasts Bluff area
Certificate 77-919: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community Centre of Amunturrngu

The top-quality painting, it has the physical presence of much contemporary work of art with the intricate details and subtle shades that floats and moves with the viewer’s eyes. Completed with tiny dots and has fascinating accuracy it has powerful, inspiring and multi dimensional sensation. Lilly Kelly Napangardi paintings describe sand hills, its winds, the rainfall and the desert environment after the rain in natural world.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi paintings are is in high demand and she is represented in major public collections throughout the world.

 

Title:      Sand Hills after Rain 77-1005
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Size
stretched: 158 x 98 cm
Provenance: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community of Amunturrngu, Haasts Bluff area
Certificate
77-1005: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community Centre of Amunturrngu

The top-quality painting, it has the physical presence of much contemporary work of art with the intricate details and subtle shades that floats and moves with the viewer’s eyes. Completed with tiny dots and has fascinating accuracy it has powerful, inspiring and multi dimensional sensation.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi paintings are is in high demand she is represented in major public collections throughout the world. Her paintings describe sand hills and its winds, the rainfall and the desert environment after the rain in natural world.

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Title:      White Sand Hills after Rain 99-313
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 90 x 86 cm
Provenance: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community of Amunturrngu, Haasts Bluff area
Certificate
99-313: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community Centre of Amunturrngu

The top-quality painting, it has the physical presence of much contemporary work of art with the intricate details and subtle shades that floats and moves with the viewer’s eyes. Completed with tiny dots and has fascinating accuracy it has powerful, inspiring and multi dimensional sensation.

Lilly Kelly Napangardi paintings are is in high demand she is represented in major public collections throughout the world. Her paintings describe sand hills and its winds, the rainfall and the desert environment after the rain in natural world.

How to BUY               

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Title:      Sand Hills  77-214  
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 150 x 60 cm
Certificate 77-214: Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu
Price:    
SOLD

Prices may change without a prior notice to purchase please contact us

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261A  Mount Scanzi Road    Kangaroo Valley NSW  2577  Australia     T: +612 4465 1494     www.galeriaaniela.com.au