Lily LION KNGWARREYE - My Country
ADG: 5290
DescriptionLily LION KNGWARREYE
My Country, 2010
68 x 43cm, Acrylic paint on canvas
Lily LION KNGWARREYE
Born c.1964
Language Alyawarr
Country Ngkwarlerlanem and Arnkawenyerr
Region Arnkawenyerr, Utopia Region North East of Alice Springs, N.T.
Medium Silk batik, Acrylic on canvas and linen
Subjects Rainbow Dreaming, Country, Honey Grevillea (Tharkerr), Flowers (Alpeyt), Honey Ant (Yerramp),Narrative Camp Scene, (Ilyarn, Ilyarnayt)
Lily Lion Kngwarreye's artworks have featured in several group exhibitions since 1977, including exhibitions at Utopia Art, Sydney; the Orange Regional Gallery; the Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA; the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and the Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs. Lily was including Robert Holmes a Court exhibition- Utopia: A Picture Story, batiks from Utopia. Lily is skilled in fine, dot painting techniques, painting her totems including bush foods, Rainbow Dreaming and Ngkwarlerlaneme country.
Group Exhibitions
1977 Utopia Art, Sydney: the Orange Regional Gallery; Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings, the First Works on Canvas, A Summer Project, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1990 Utopia – A Picture Story, exhibition of silk batik from the Holmes a Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Eire and Scotland
1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
1993 The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
2003 Art from the Dreamtime, Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon U.S.A
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Bibliography
1989 Brody, A. 1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A Summer School Project 1988-89, Heytesbury Holdings Perth
1990 Brody, A. 1990 Utopia, a Picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury Holdings Ltd Perth
2001 Wallace, D, Desmond, M, Caruana, W. 2991 Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia Canberra