Born: circa 1948Region: Tjiturulnga, Western AustraliaLanguage group: Warlpiri, Luritja Lily Kelly Napangardi was born in the Haasts Bluff region of the Northern Territory of Australia. In her earlier years, Lily 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. Lily is a respected senior law woman of her community of Watiyawanu, and the custodian over the women’s Dreamtime stories associated with Kunajarrayi. Lily 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. Lily’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 with a dream-like quality. Lily was named as one of Australia's 50 most collectable artists by Australian Art Collector. Collections of her work include Musée du quai Branly (Paris), The Kelton Foundation, (Santa Monica, USA), The Thomas Vroom Collection (Amsterdam, NL), Groninger Museum (The Netherlands), The National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney), Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Artbank (Sydney), The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY, USA), and more.