Abbie Loy Kamarre
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 Exhibitions1997 Schilderijen uit Utopia, Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands1997 Dreampower, Art of Contemporary Aboriginal AustraliaMuseum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali, IndonesiaGaleri Ardiyanto, Yogyakarta, IndonesiaThe National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia1997 14th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Touring Art Exhibition1997 Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Desert Designs, Fremantle WA1997 Documenta, Kasel, Germany1997 The Alice Prize Exhibition, Alice Springs NT1997 Japingka Gallery, Desert Designs, Fremantle WA1998 Our Country Then and Now, Gallerie Australis1998 Raiki Wara: Long cloth from Aboriginal Australia & Torres Strait, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIC1998 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition Darwin, NT1998 Utopia Dreamings, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA1999 Joint Indonesian – Utopia Batik Workshop for Third Pacific Arts1999 Utopia Recent Works, King Street Gallery, Perth WA1999 North by North East, Landscape & Ceremonial Paintings from Utopia, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne1999 SALA Week, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide SA2000 Utopia, Framed Gallery, Darwin NT2000 The Collection, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide SA2001 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition, Darwin NT2001 Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2002 Kimberly, Central Desert & Utopia, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2002 Abie Loy & Violet Petyarre, Recent Paintings, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington NSW2002 Generations Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2003 Abie Loy – Recent Paintings, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane Qld2004 Arrnkerthe, New Paintings, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney NSW2004 Group Show Gadfly Gallery, Perth WA2005 Dreamings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth WA2005 Utopia & Beyond, Maunsell Wicks, Paddington NSW2006 Abie Loy & Kathleen Petyarre, New Paintings, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington NSW2006 Recent Painting, Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Framed Gallery, Darwin NT2006 Luminaries of the Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2006 Balmain Art & Craft show, Indigenous Gallery, Sydney NSW2008 Utopia Collection, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2011 In Black and white, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2012 Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2012 Sandover River Country, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2012 Recent Works, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2012 Desert Gold, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA2014 Desert Song, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
