Born in the around 1930s, Liddy started painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association soon after this art centre was established in her remote desert community in the mid 1980s. Since then this artist`s work has been widely exhibited, collected and published.

Liddy Napanangka Walker is a Warlpiri woman, She is a part of group of senior women artists, who have come to be thought of as `Painting Divas from the Desert, these artist`s works are highly dynamic and textural and conform to the strong colour palette associated to Yuendumu`s regional style of painting.