Abie Loy Kemarre / Bush Medicine Leaves

An Anmatyerr artist who spent formative years at Utopia and learned to paint from her grandmother, Kathleen Petyarre. Her wider practice draws on Bush Hen Dreaming, Country, sandhills and ceremonial body painting. Abie started creating art in 1994 under the tutelage of her famous grandmother, Kathleen Petyarre. Abie was born in 1972 at Utopia Station, 275 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern territory of Central Australia.

She is the daughter of Margaret Loy Pula (who won the Wynne Prize in 2012), granddaughter of Kathleen Petyarre and niece of Gloria Petyarre. She has custodial rights to the Bush Hen Dreaming which she explores as well as her associated Country, sandhills and body painting series of works. Abie comes from one of the most widely respected painting families in Australia.