GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY - AKWERLKERRMWERLKERR - BUSH TURKEY DREAMING

 GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY
AKWERLKERRMWERLKERR  - BUSH TURKEY DREAMING,  2018
120 x 120 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
PROVENANCE
Utopia, NT
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, VICCooee Art Gallery, NSW, 2018 
 
STORY
This painting depicts Bush Turkey Dreaming. This story or dreaming was passed onto Genevieve from her father Cowboy Loy Pwerle. It shows the Bush Turkey making tracks as it searches for seeds to eat and looking for the water hole so that it can drink. This country is known as Antwengerrp which is to the west of the Sandover River on Utopia Station in Central Australia."I am the granddaughter of Nancy Petyarr, and have painted my father Cowboy Pwerl's country and the story of Arwengerrp, the Bush Turkey, for which he is senior custodian. My paintings depict the tracks the bush turkey makes as it searches for seeds and makes its way to the water hole. On a more complex cultural level, the work is about women's ceremonies of the Anmatyerr people and are translation of the relationship between me and my country in Utopia, Central Australia. My paintings consist of meticulous dots and elegant wisps creating vibrating richly textured surfaces representing my own reimagining of the Dreaming Stories."