The Liddy Napanangka Walker Collection

I paint my father Japangardi’s Dreaming and my grandfather’s Dreaming. Mt Theo is my father’s country and that’s what I’m painting the special Dreamings from. The Dreamings I paint are bush tomato, goanna as well as seed pods and bush potato and the little hopping mouse. There are lots of stories…I paint strongly.” Liddy was born in 1925 at Mt Doreen, and spent her younger years living with her family in bush camps. She regularly visited her country around Mt Theo, west of Yuendumu. She lived in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community located 290 kms north-west of Alice Springs, in the NT of Australia. In the community since it was first established Liddy worked in various pastoral care roles including cooking for the sick or the elderly. She started painting in 1985 and become one of the most important member sharing her father’s Jukurrpa stories, Dreaming stories