Lily Kngwarreye b. c.1937

Also known as Sandover Kngwarreye, Lily Sandover
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Alyawarre speaker and senior woman at Arawerre (in the north of Utopia), Northern Territory. A skilled batik artist and painter, her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Name
Lily Kngwarreye
Also known as:
  • Sandover Kngwarreye
  • Lily Sandover
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
c.1937
Birth place
McDonald Downs station, Northern Territory
Active Period
  • 1988 - 1991
Residence
  • Arawerre (Arawerr), Northern Territory
Training
  • 1988 - 1989 Summer Project, CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association), Utopia, NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Entibera
Dreaming
  • Honey Grevillea
  • Two Sisters
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Alyawarre
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary