Lily Kelly (Lilly) Napangardi - Artist Info

About Lily Kelly (Lilly) Napangardi

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Lily Kelly, Lilly Kelly Napangardi
  • Biography

    Lily Kelly Napangardi (born c.1948) is a distinguished aboriginal artist born in the Haasts Bluff region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

    In her earlier years, Napangardi lived with her family at the settlement of Papunya, but later moved to Watiyawanu (Mount Liebig - 325 km west of Alice Springs) (with her husband Norman Kelly, also an artist). Napangardi is a respected senior law woman of her community of Watiyawanu, and the custodian over the Women's Dreamtime stories associated with Kunajarrayi.

    Lily Kelly Napangardi began painting in the early 1980s. She won the Northern Territory Art Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Painting in 1986 and was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...

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