Born: c1948
Tribe: Warlpiri/Luritja
Area: Tjiturulnga, west of Kintore

Lilly Kelly Napangardi is a senior artist of the Mt Liebig community near Haasts Bluff in the Northern Territory - approximately 325 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs. Lilly usually paints drifting impressions of her country, especially the sand hills (tali) adjacent to Kintore. Her distinctive patterning often references the winds and the desert environment after rain. Lilly also speaks about the seasonal changes and the crucial waterholes in this sandy landscape. Lilly employs a fine textured painting style often with microcosmic detail. The minimalist effect and ephemeral nature of these repetitious designs have enthused many collectors and curators, with notable works entering various public and private collections. In 2006 she was named in the Top 50 artists in the arts journal Australian Art Collector.

Selected Exhibitions
2009 Tali (Sandhills) Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2004 Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide
2003 Neil Murphy Indigenous Art Showing, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
NATSIAA Telstra Awards, Darwin

2000-2003 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs
Span Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Graham Marshall Gallery, Adelaide
2002 NATSIAA Telstra Awards, Darwin

1999 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs
Awards
2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
1986 Northern Territory Art Award.

Collections
The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Bank, Sydney
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin
Holmes a’ Court Collection, Perth.
James Erskine Collection
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA