GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY - AKWERLKERRMWERLKERR - BUSH TURKEY DREAMING
GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY
AKWERLKERRMWERLKERR - BUSH TURKEY DREAMING, 2007
120 x 121 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
REGION
Utopia, NT
PROVENANCE
Lauraine Diggens Fine Art, Melbourne
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
The painting represents the Dreamtime story of the bush turkey ancestor. The bush turkey in search of food, roams the land leaving behind its tracks throughout Atnwengerrp, the artists homeland of Utopia in Central Australia.
The bush turkey is significant to Aboriginal people who share custodianship of this Dreaming and is re- enacted during their ceremonies.
EXHIBITED
NG Art Gallery, Revisiting Utopia at NG Art Gallery, 2008
Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Ochres to Dust, 2009
Into the Future – Emerging Talent, March 2013, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
ARTIST PROFILE
