Born c.1926 of the Warlpiri/Anmatyerre language/tribe, she lives at Yuendumu and is one of the senior women of the Yuendumu community whose interest in rendering traditional women’s designs in western materials was one of the driving forces behind early experiments with canvas at the settlement. Her work was included in the first exhibition of Yuendumu paintings at the Araluen Centre in Alice Springs in October 1985 and in many exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists since in Perth, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, and Darwin, also in England as part of the 1987 Portsmouth Festival. She participated in the SA Museum’s Yuendumu: Paintings out of the Desert in 1987-8, and the Dreamings exhibition which toured the USA in 1988-9 included Sugarleaf Dreaming at Ngarlu , 1986, on which Lucy collaborated with her countrywomen Ruth and Hilda Martin Napaljarri . Lucy’s heritage country is in the Coniston Station and Mt Allan area and she paints Miinypa (Native Fuschia), Marlu (Kangaroo) and Janganpa (Possum) Dreamings for this country. Lucy, Dolly Daniels and Bessie Sims are the only three women on the Yuendumu Council.
- Writers:
- Johnson, Vivien
- Date written:
- 1994
- Last updated:
- 2011
