News — Sandhills

Today I’d like to look at an artist named Lily Kelly Napangardi who comes from Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory. Lily often paints sandhills but she paints them in a very different way to many other artists. In her paintings you sometimes get the impression of the wind blowing the tops off these sandhills through the line of dots she creates coming off the top of the sandhills. It’s almost a plain-air and aerial view in the same painting.  Lily was one of the first of the famous artists from the Watiyawanu Art Centre at Mount Liebig. She had...