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Lily Kelly Napangardi
B.1948
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 Lily Kelly
Napangardi is
a distinguished
Australian
Aboriginal
artist.
Her work is recognised most
innovative
modern
world-class
abstract.
Lilly Kelly
work
is
represented
in
some of the most important museums and
collections
around the world including including
Musée du quai Branly
in Paris.
Lily Kelly Napangardi
paintings have the sheer physical presence of the much contemporary
work of art and the
multi-dimensional
of space and depth. Her
Sand Hills 2004
sold for $39,600,
White Sand
Hills 2005 $24,000 and
White Sand-Hills 2004 sold for
$11,573. |
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Lily Kelly
Napangardi
Sand Hills
99-313
White
(Tali)
Mount Liebig
Synthetic polymer on Belgian Linen
Image
Size:
90 x 86 cm
Price:
SOLD
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Lily Kelly
Napangardi
Sand Hills
99-313
White
(Tali)
Mount Liebig
Synthetic polymer on Belgian Linen
Framed size: 130
x 126 cm
price subject to change without prior
notice
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In
the
art scene of the World,
Lily Kelly
Napangardi
is recognised as some of
the most innovative
contemporary,
abstract
artist highly
sought-after by museums worldwide.
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Lily Kelly Napangardi
77-1005
Sand-Hills
masterwork
Synthetic polymer Paint
Belgian linen
Size: 160 cm x 100 cm
Price:
SOLD |
Lily Kelly Napangardi
Sand Hills
(Tali)
Mount Liebig
77-919
Synthetic polymer on
Belgian linen
Size: 160 cm x 125 cm
Price:
SOLD |
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Sand Hills
is
the state-of-the-art
rare painting
that has the physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.
It is painted
black dots on white background
with
and
multi-dimensional space
and depth.
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Lily Kelly
Napangardi
BIOGRAPHY
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Lily Kelly Napangardi is a distinguished
Aboriginal
artist born
around 1948
n the
Haasts Bluff region of the
Northern Territory of
Australia.
Lily Kelly Napangardi top-quality ‘Sand Hills'
paintings have
the sheer physical presence of the much contemporary work of
art.
The
finesse of Lily's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her
work and
the muted tones show a mysterious topography of the land and
rain.
Lily uses a technique of tiny
microcosmic dots
and dashes, intricate subtle details that move with the
viewer’s eyes.
Her 'Sand-hill' paintings are usually white dots on black
background, but some rarer examples of her work are
painted black dots on white background,
presenting an almost three-dimensional illusion of space and
depth.
In earlier years, Napangardi lived with her
family at the settlement of
Papunya, 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 Art Award (NATSIAA) in 2003. In January 2006, she was
named as one of Australia’s 50 most collectable artists by Australian Art
Collector magazine.
Napangardi's
paintings are of her country, especially of the sand hills (Tali) around
Mount Liebig. They are usually done in
white (sometimes, red or yellow) dots on black background, presenting an almost
three-dimensional illusion of space and depth. Some rarer examples of her work
are painted in two colours (mainly white and red) on black background. Today
Lily Kelly Napangardi's art is recognised as some of the most innovative in the
contemporary Aboriginal art scene. It is highly sought-after by museums and
private collectors worldwide.
AWARDS
1986
Telstra natsiaa Art Award
2003
Telstra
natsiaa Art Award
2006 Australia’s
top 50 most collectible artists
Collections
Musée du quai Branly,
Paris
The
Kelton Foundation,
Santa Monica (USA)
Gallery Anthony Curtis, Cambridge, MA (USA)
The Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam (NL)
Groninger Museum,
The Netherlands
The
National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney
Australian National Art
Gallery of Queensland,
Brisbane
Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide
National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
Museum and Art Gallery of
the Northern Territory, Darwin
The
Kerry Stokes
Collection
The
Holmes à Court
Collection, Perth
Artbank, Sydney
National Museum of
Australia,
Canberra
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
James Erskine
Collection
Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund Contemporary
Aboriginal Art
Lily Kelly Napangardi
is one of the most important Australian artists.
In 1986 Lily won the Northern Territory Art Award for
Excellence in Aboriginal Painting, in 2003 was a finalist in
the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art Award and in 2006 was named one of the Australia’s top
50 most collectible artists.
Lily Kelly Napangardi work has the physical presence of the
much contemporary work of art.
The
finesse of Lily's style creates a wonderful lyricism in her
work,
the muted tones show a mysterious topography of the land and
rain.
Lily
uses a time consuming technique of tiny dots
and dashes,
and the intricate subtle details that move with the viewer’s
eyes and give the multi-dimensional appearance.
Born
circa 1948 in the Haast Bluff region of the
Northern Territory (325 kilometers north-west of Alice Springs) Lily Kelly Napangardi 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.
Lily Kelly Napangardi is from
Mount Liebig, a senior law woman of the Watiyawanu community, Haasts Bluff.
Lily 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.
Lily Kelly
Napangardi
holds authority
over the "Women Dreaming " story associated with Kunajarrayi.
Throughout this time Lily 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.
Lily
depicts stories from the Haasts Bluff and Kunajarrayi region, her
traditional country, for the Watyawanu Art Centre. Lily portrays commanding
innovative interpretations of her traditional country and holds
authority over the Women's Dreaming story associated with Kunajarrayi, and is
also teaching younger women traditional dancing and
singing. . Her most recent
works are skillful representations of sand hills in their various forms.
Lily's works are in high demand and are represented in major private
and public collections throughout the world.
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.
 Lily Kelly Napangardi,
Sand Hills,
Synthetic polymer on
Belgian linen,
Price:
SOLD
Selected Major
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
natsiaa Art Awards
exhibition
2003
Telstra
natsiaa Art Awards
exhibition
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
NOTES
Lily Kelly Napangardi
Sand-Hills paintings
Lily Kelly
Napangardi
paintings
have
the physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.
Her paintings are hypnotic, made of fine dots and dashes,
with the
fascinating
accuracy of
the intricate details and subtle shades that moves with the
viewer’s eyes and
floats in the air,
creating the multi
dimensional sensation.
The finesse and muted tones of Lily Kelly tiny microcosmic dots, and subtle
details, show a mysterious topography that moves with the viewer’s eyes.
Napangardi paints the seasonal changes
of the sandy landscapes. Her landscapes
are fascinating, seem to appear and disappear with the changing
winds and blowing sands and the run-off from the rains that
makes a pattern of lines and striations down the surface of the
sand hills. Lilly Kelly Napangardi creates moving landscapes, the
ephemeral nature of this drifting and changing country. This is
Napangardi key subject, and the viewer, walking in front of her
painting, can sense something of the immersive experience of her
country.
Lily Kelly Napangardi
uses soft,
the most finest dot work and shades
of beautiful colour to create
her sand hills, its winds, the rainfall and the
desert environment after the rain in her natural world. Lily Kelly
Napangardi paintings are is in high demand and she is
represented in major public collections throughout the world.
In the
Contemporary World
Art scene,
Lily Kelly Napangardi work is recognised as some of the most innovative
modern
abstract, highly sought-after by museums and
collectors worldwide.
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Literature
Source
& FURTHER
REFERENCES
Australian Aboriginal Artist dictionary of
biographies
Kreczmanski, Janusz B and Birnberg, Margo (eds.):
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies:
Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region
JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004.
Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A
Biographical Dictionary by Vivien Johnson, published
by Craftsman House 1994
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published
by OUP 2000
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies:
Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region JB
Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004
Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First
Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib.
Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody
A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from
the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery
Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD
database, Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD
Press, Alice Springs
Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First
Works on Canvas, A summer Project 1988-89 exhib.
Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody
Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming.
Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of
Australia, Greenhouse Publ., Melbourne 1988;
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst.
Kat.; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection
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(Hrsg.), 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Droombeelden - Tjukurrpa.
Groninger Museum (Hrsg.), Groningen 1995, Ausst.
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of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1984;
Isaacs, J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings.
Lansdowne, Sydney 1989, ISBN 186302011X; Johnson,
V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A
Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East
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Ancient Icon. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.),
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Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat.; Stourton, P. Corbally,
Songlines and Dreamings. Lund Humphries Publ.,
London 1996, ISBN 0853316910; The Painted Dream.
Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings. Johnson, V. (Hrsg.),
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991, Ausst.
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Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,
Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN
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Sand-hills
2004,
Around Mount Leibig
Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Sotheby's,
Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, Lot No. 167
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$39,600 |
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White
Sand hills,
2005,
Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Menzies,
Aboriginal Art Sydney, Lot No. 42 |
$24,000 |
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Untitled
Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Watiyawanu
Artists,Christies, Australian Aboriginal Art,
Melbourne, Lot No. 8 |
$22,705 |
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Sand-hills 2005
Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen, Menzies,
Aboriginal Art Sydney, Lot No. 153 |
$19,200 |
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Sand-hills, 2006
Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Watiyawanu
Artists, Deutscher and Hackett, Aboriginal Art,
Luczo Family Collection, USA, Melbourne, Lot No. 84
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$17,080 |
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Tali at Ilpili
Acrylic on Belgian linen, Elder Fine Art, Aboriginal
Art, Adelaide, Lot No. 33 |
$16,500 |
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Sand Hills Story 2006
Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Menzies, Colonial
to Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Sydney, Lot No. 141
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$15,600 |
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Untitled, 2004
Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Neil Murphy
Indigenous Art, Bonhams, Important Australian and
Aboriginal Art incl. The Collections of Amina and
Franco Belgiorno-Nettis and Thomas Vroom, Sydney,
Lot No. 137 |
$12,200 |
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Untitled, 2000
Acrylic on canvas, Mossgreen Auctions, The Elizabeth
Jones Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art,
Melbourne, Lot No. 79 |
$11,950 |
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White Sand-hills,
2004
Acrylic on linen, Watiwayanu Artists, Leonard Joel,
The Thomas Vroom Collection, Melbourne, Lot No.
365 |
$11,573 |
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