LIDDY
NAPANANGKA WALKER
Liddy Napanangka Walker forms part of a small group of senior women artists, who have come to be thought of as Painting Divas of the Desert.
Affiliated to the Warlukurlangu art centre at Yuendumu in the Tanami Desert, this artist`s works are highly dynamic and textural and conform to the strong colour palette associated to Yuendumu regional style of painting.
Born in the early 1930s, Liddy started painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association soon after this art centre was established in her remote desert community in the mid 1980s. Since then this artist`s work has been widely exhibited, collected and published.
Publications include:
Art Gallery of South Australia Dreamings of the Desert. Aboriginal Dot Paintings of the Western Desert, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 1996
Caruana, W. (Ed.). `Windows on the Dreaming`, Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery. Ellsyd Press, Sydney 1989
Morphy, H. 'Aboriginal Art', Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1998.
Morphy, H. and Boles, M.S. (eds.) `Art from the Land`, University of Virginia Press, Virginia, U.S.A., 1999.
Collections include:
Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht
Warlukurlangu Artists Collection
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Flinders University Art Museum, Melbourne
Gordon Darling Foundation, Canberra
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Private Collections
Copyright: photograph Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association
Text: Milanka J Sullivan