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Liddy Walker Napanangka BIOGRAPHY
1925 - 2017. Known for: Aboriginal art.
Liddy was born around 1925, making her one of the oldest artists alive. Like many people of her generation, she spent her youth in the bush. When the Yuendumu community was created, she moved there.... Read full biography
Liddy was born around 1925, making her one of the oldest artists alive. Like many people of her generation, she spent her youth in the bush. When the Yuendumu community was created, she moved there. She holds a variety of jobs, including caring for the elderly. She began painting after the creation... Read full biography
Liddy was born around 1925, making her one of the oldest artists alive. Like many people of her generation, she spent her youth in the bush. When the Yuendumu community was created, she moved there. She holds a variety of jobs, including caring for the elderly. She began painting after the creation of the cooperative in 1985. "I paint my father Japangardi's Dreaming and my Grandfather's Dreaming. Mt Theo is my father's country and that's what I'm painting the special Dreamings from. The... Read full biography
Liddy was born around 1925, making her one of the oldest artists alive. Like many people of her generation, she spent her youth in the bush. When the Yuendumu community was created, she moved there. She holds a variety of jobs, including caring for the elderly. She began painting after the creation of the cooperative in 1985. "I paint my father Japangardi's Dreaming and my Grandfather's Dreaming. Mt Theo is my father's country and that's what I'm painting the special Dreamings from. The Dreamings I paint are tomato bush, goanna . Goanna likes to fight and is a lover boy. And I paint seed pods and bush potato and hopping mouse. There are lots of stories . I paint strongly. She is inspired by many themes, but it is mainly her Dogwood... Read full biography
Liddy was born around 1925, making her one of the oldest artists alive. Like many people of her generation, she spent her youth in the bush. When the Yuendumu community was created, she moved there. She holds a variety of jobs, including caring for the elderly. She began painting after the creation of the cooperative in 1985. "I paint my father Japangardi's Dreaming and my Grandfather's Dreaming. Mt Theo is my father's country and that's what I'm painting the special Dreamings from. The Dreamings I paint are tomato bush, goanna . Goanna likes to fight and is a lover boy. And I paint seed pods and bush potato and hopping mouse. There are lots of stories . I paint strongly. She is inspired by many themes, but it is mainly her Dogwood Dreaming and Snake Vine Dreaming that she uses as a main source in recent years. Liddy's art remains dependent on an orthodox vision of Wa... Read full biography
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Liddy Napangka Walker
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Liddy was born around 1925, making her one of the oldest artists alive. Like many people of her generation, she spent her youth in the bush. When the Yuendumu community was created, she moved there. She holds a variety of jobs, including caring for the elderly.
She began painting after the creation of the cooperative in 1985. "I paint my father Japangardi's Dreaming and my Grandfather's Dreaming. Mt Theo is my father's country and that's what I'm painting the special Dreamings from. The Dreamings I paint are tomato bush, goanna ... Goanna likes to fight and is a lover boy. And I paint seed pods and bush potato and hopping mouse.
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