Lissandra Campbell Naparrula / Women’s Ceremony (LC03)

Lissandra Campbell Naparrula was born in 1984 in Alice Springs, NT. She lives in Mt. Liebig (Watiyawanu) with her mother, highly respected artist Maisie Campbell. Mount Liebig lies on the western edge of the MacDonnell Ranges, approx. 325km west of Alice Springs and is a go-between community for families with connections to Haasts Bluff, Papunya, Kintore and Kiwirrkura. Lissandra and her family often travel to Kintore to visit family.

Lissandra started painting around 2000. She comes from a long line of artists. As well as her talented mother, her father was the artist Barney Campbell Tjakamarra. A senior Pintupi lawman, Barney was a custodian of the Tingari Cycle stories.

An artist with immense talent, Larissa will no doubt have a long and successful career.

Traditional colours and heavy dot work are used to depict sacred women’s sites in the Kintore area. The concentric circles commonly seen in her paintings represent the important ceremonial sites for Lissandra and her ancestors and the connecting lines between the circles are the ancient travelling paths that lead to these sites.