Margaret Lewis Napangardi Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1952 -

Margaret Lewis Napangardi was born in 1952 at Mt Doreen Station in Central Australia and grew up with her two brothers and three sisters around Nyrippi outstation in the Simpson Desert. Margaret Lewis Napangardi was taught painting by her father, Paddy Japanangka Lewis, who was a prominent Yuendumu artist. In 1978 Margaret Lewis Napangardi participated with other Yuendumu women in learning the art of batik-making. Since that time Margaret Lewis Napangardi has developed her painting in a number of differing directions which relate to her inherited Dreaming stories.

Margaret Lewis Napangardi is the sister of the late Dorothy Napangardi Robertson and the mother of artist and musician Gordon Robertson Jangala. Margaret Lewis Napangardi remains an artist who likes to constantly experiment with various painting styles to express her traditional stories.