GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY - AKWERLKERRMWERLKERR - BUSH TURKEY DREAMING
GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY
AKWERLKERRMWERLKERR - BUSH TURKEY DREAMING, 2017
90 x 120 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
REGION
Utopia, NT
PROVENANCE
Commissioned from the artist
Corporate Collection, Vic
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
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.
EXHIBITED
Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr, January 2020, Cooee Art Paddington
CA Presents Gallery Artists at Affordable Art Fair, June 2023, Randwick Racecourse
ARTIST PROFILE