Liddy Napanangka
State: NT
region: Tanami Desert
Community: Yuendumu
Language: Warlpiri
Social Affiliation: Napanangka subsection
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
Subjects: Warna (Snake), Kanta (Bloodwood Gall or Bush Coconut), Wardapi (Goanna), Wakirlpirri (Acacia Seed), Karnta (Women), Ngalyipi (Snake Vine), Ngapa (Water/Rain), Puturlu (Mt. Theo), Wanakiji (Bush Tomato), Jarrada-Jarrayi (Dreaming Site). Notes supplied by Francoise Dussart:; Born at Jarradajarrayi (Mt. Theo), which is associated with Wardapi (goanna) and Warna (snake) Dreamings. She is also responsible as an owner, kirda, for a dogwood Dreaming through her father.
Commissions:
1992 – The Australian National Gallery commissioned a collection of 14 paintings by the Association’s prominent Artists. The collection documents the major dreaming represented in the current painting movement of the Yuendumu region. A collaborative work by Liddy and her sister Maggie Napanangka White will form part of the collection.
Bibliography:
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.
Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C) .
Caruana, W., and Brandl, M., 1990, Explaining the national collection, marks of meaning: Ways of looking at Aboriginal art, Australian National Gallery Association News, January/February 1990..
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C).
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. er.