"Bush Medicine Leaves" by Abie Loy Kemarre

"Bush Medicine Leaves" by Abie Loy KemarreSize 84 x 53 cm Acrylic Paint on Italian Canvas Worldwide Shipping Abie Loy Kemarre developed her fine skills as an artist at an early age working closely with her famous grandmother Kathleen Petyarre. Kathleen taught Abie the techniques to create paintings where the delicate dotting created a moving surface of color that highlighted the structure of her paintings. Abie concentrated on the Bush Hen Dreaming story that she had inherited from her

• Size 84 x 53 cm
• Acrylic Paint on Italian Canvas
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Abie Loy Kemarre developed her fine skills as an artist at an early age working closely with her famous grandmother Kathleen Petyarre. Kathleen taught Abie the techniques to create paintings where the delicate dotting created a moving surface of color that highlighted the structure of her paintings. Abie concentrated on the Bush Hen Dreaming story that she had inherited from her grandfather.

Abie Loy Kemarre is related to a number of the famous Utopia artists including Gloria Petyarre, Ada Bird Petyarre, and Emily Kngwarreye. Born in 1972, Abie Loy Kemarre belongs to the Eastern Anmatyerre language group and identifies with her traditional country at Iylenty or Mosquito Bore.

Abie Loy’s Bush Hen Dreaming paintings further evolved and she began work on bolder, more abstract style around motifs of Sandhills and Body Painting. The expertise shown in her work brought her critical acclaim. Abie Loy Kemarre has been exhibiting for thirty years both within Australia and internationally.

Abie Loy Kemarre’s work is held in Australian public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the Adelaide University Art Collection. She is represented in major private collections including Kelton Foundation, Levi-Kaplan Collection, Kerry Stokes Collection, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission Collection, and Festival of Arts Foundation Collection. A selection of paintings by Abie Loy Kemarre is available from Japingka Gallery, where collectors can buy Aboriginal art online with certainty of quality, authenticity, and provenance of artworks. Aboriginal art status – Highly regarded artist.

Selected Group Exhibitions

1997 Schilderijen uit Utopia, Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1997 Dreampower, Art of Contemporary Aboriginal Australia

Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Galeri Ardiyanto, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
1997 14th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Touring Art Exhibition
1997 Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Desert Designs, Fremantle WA
1997 Documenta, Kasel, Germany
1997 The Alice Prize Exhibition, Alice Springs NT
1997 Japingka Gallery, Desert Designs, Fremantle WA
1998 Our Country Then and Now, Gallerie Australis
1998 Raiki Wara: Long cloth from Aboriginal Australia & Torres Strait, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIC
1998 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition Darwin, NT
1998 Utopia Dreamings, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
1999 Joint Indonesian – Utopia Batik Workshop for Third Pacific Arts
1999 Utopia Recent Works, King Street Gallery, Perth WA
1999 North by North East, Landscape & Ceremonial Paintings from Utopia, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 SALA Week, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide SA
2000 Utopia, Framed Gallery, Darwin NT
2000 The Collection, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide SA
2001 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition, Darwin NT
2001 Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2002 Kimberly, Central Desert & Utopia, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2002 Abie Loy & Violet Petyarre, Recent Paintings, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington NSW
2002 Generations Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2003 Abie Loy – Recent Paintings, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane Qld
2004 Arrnkerthe, New Paintings, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney NSW
2004 Group Show Gadfly Gallery, Perth WA
2005 Dreamings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth WA
2005 Utopia & Beyond, Maunsell Wicks, Paddington NSW
2006 Abie Loy & Kathleen Petyarre, New Paintings, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington NSW
2006 Recent Painting, Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Framed Gallery, Darwin NT
2006 Luminaries of the Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2006 Balmain Art & Craft show, Indigenous Gallery, Sydney NSW
2008 Utopia Collection, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2011 In Black and white, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2012 Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2012 Sandover River Country, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2012 Recent Works, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2012 Desert Gold, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
2014 Desert Song, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA