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Born in 1964, Lily Lion Kngwarreye is an accomplished Australian artist from Utopia. Lily Lion artistic career began in the 1970's when as a young woman, was painting on silk batik in the Utopia Women's Batik Group with Gloria Petyarre and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. In the 1980’s, painting acrylic on canvas, Lily created an explosion of creativity using tiny delicate brush strokes, she achieved further artistic recognition. 

Lily Lion bird's-eye-view beautiful landscapes, have the sheer physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.

Lily Lion Kngwarreye is successful in the World Art Market and represented all over the world including  Art Gallery of Western Australia, World Vision, Homes a Court Collection, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, ArtBank, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Victoria, Flinders University, National Art Centre Tokyo Japan, Richard Kelton Foundation Santa Monica, , Portland Art Museum and Portland Oregon USA, Art and Soul Gallery Nashville Tennessee USA, New City Merchants, Knoxville, Tennessee USA, The Cove Gallery Portland USA, Mary's Woods Gallery USA, Orange Regional Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin.

Lily Lion
   Flowers MB34523
 Acrylic on linen on board
Image Size: 125 x 35 cm
Framed Size: 135 x 45 cm

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Flowers Design Paintings

MB34523, MB35621, MB35644, MB034152

Lily Lion beautiful inspiring paintings have the physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.

Lily pays particular attention to details, painting with with fascinating accuracy of macroscopically tiny dots and delicate brush strokes and intricate shades of colour, Lily Lion artworks give an illusion of multi dimensional appearance.

Lily depicts Rainbow (Mpwelarr), Ilyarn and Ilyarnayt flower story, Tharrkarr, Yerramp (Honey Ant) and Alpeyt (flowers).

Grevillea Dreaming and Acacia Flower (Ilyarnayt flower), Ilyarnayt and Alhepalh types of wattles.

Other Dreaming that Lily paints are Sweet Honey Grevillea (Tharrkarr ), Honey Ant (Yerramp) and (Alpeyt) Flowers and also 'Ilyarnayt' seeds and Ilyarnayt flowers.

Lily Lion Dreamtime stories belong to the Ngkawarlerlarnem and Arnkawenyerr countries.

Ilyarn or Ilyarnayt plant is a common variety of Acacia. It is particularly appreciated for the abundance of edible grubs living in its roots (known simply as ilyarnayt and are similar to a witchetty grub) and also its seeds (ntang ilyarnayt).

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 1996 - data base. "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, “Australian Aboriginal Artist Encyclopedia” – dictionary of biographies” Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): 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.

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