Organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Clan

Dhuḏi-Djapu

Artist Dates

Born 1973

Alternative Names

Kathy

Ḻiyawaḏay Wirrpanḏa

The daughter of renowned artists Dhukaḻ Wirrpanda and Galuma Maymuru, and the wife of Djambawa Marawili, Ḻiyawaḏay Wirrpanda learned to paint by assisting her parents and, later, her husband. At Djambawa’s encouragement, she began to paint under her own name in 2009 and held her first solo exhibition in 2010.

Collections Represented

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Deakin University

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia