Genevieve Loy Kemarr | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr | Paddington by Cooee Art Leven

GENEVIEVE KEMARR LOY Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr PRESENTED BY COOEE ART GALLERY | 16 JANUARY - 8 FEBRUARY 2020

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr 16 January - 8 February 2020 Cooee Art Paddington 326 Oxford Street Paddington NSW 2021 Cover (Front & Back) Image Genevieve Kemarr Loy Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen 200 x 120 cm Inner Front Cover Image Artist Genevieve Kemarr Loy Source: Cooee Art Inner Back Cover Image Artist Genevieve Kemarr Loy Source: Cooee Art

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 150 x 150 cm | #18006

Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr Hayley Cotton

Galler y Manager Paddington | Cooee Art Galler y

Cooee Art Gallery is pleased to present a wonderfully colourful and exciting solo exhibition by Genevieve Kemarr Loy, an emerging artist from the Utopia region. Genevieve is the granddaughter of Artist Nancy Petyarr and daughter of Cowboy Loy Pwerl, from whom she learned how and what subjects to paint. She paints her father’s country, which lies on the western side of Sandover River on Utopia Station. Her story is of the Bush Turkey, for which her father is senior custodian. She is one of the most naturally gifted and inspiring painters to have come out of the Utopia region in some time. Since 2010, she has been a finalist in the Blake Prize, the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, the Paddington Art Prize, the Fleurieu

Art Prize, the Churchie, the National Emerging Art Exhibition, and the Alice Prize. Her works have been acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Deakin University, Melbourne, along with numerous private collections around the world. Genevieve’s works show a natural grasp of colour, design, and resolved aesthetic direction. Her Arwengerrp (Bush Turkey) and Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr (Green Plant) paintings combine the traditional meticulous dots with elegant wisps, creating vibrant, pulsating, and richly textured surfaces. Genevieve’s paintings are characterised by the gently beautiful handling of paint, a harmonious sense of

colour and great control of the delicate spidery marks that make their way across her canvas. While these works are solidly planted within the established cultural conventions, Genevieve’s paintings are original and independently inspired; they represent her own re-imagining of the Dreaming stories. The strong diagonals that anchor each painting are a stylistic choice that represent the spatial ‘Dream lines’. To borrow from Margo Neale, they evoke ‘a sense of the timelessness embodied in ancestral continuity’. The works all relate directly to the ‘creator of her country’, the Bush Turkey, and while Cowboy Loy depicts the nesting place of the Bush Turkey, Genevieve shows its tracks as it travels between its nesting place and various waterholes searching for seeds and other tucker. On a more complex cultural level, her works relate to Anmatyerr ceremonies, offering a significant depiction of the relationship between Genevieve and her country in Utopia, Central Australia. Dr. Christine Nicholls has referred to the paintings of Iylenty artists, of which Genevieve is the most inspired descendent, as being “more than simple reconstructions of visible spatial features”. They offer “an integrated spatial, environmental, economic, spiritual and moral ‘reading’ of the land”.

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 90 x 120 cm | #17993

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming [in-situ] | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 90 x 120 cm | #17993

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 90 x 120 cm | #18000

â&#x20AC;&#x153;a sense of the timelessness embodied in ancestral continuityâ&#x20AC;? - Margo Neale Principle Exhibition Curator National Museum of Australia

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 90 cm | #17998

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 90 x 120 cm | #17994

ANTWENGERRP BUSH TURKEY DREAMING

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.

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 150 x 150 cm | #18006

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming [in-situ] | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 90 cm | #17999

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 90 cm | #17999

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 200 cm | #18005

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 200 cm | #18004

Genevieve Kemarr Loy painting Sourrce: Lauraine Diggins Fine Art

Artist Biography Genevieve Kemarr Loy - B. 1982 Region - North Eastern Central Australia Residence - Iylenty (Mosquito Bore), Utopia Langauge - Anmatyerr Genevieve Kemarr Loy is a young artist from the Utopia region. She is the granddaughter of Nancy Petyarr and has learnt painting from her father, Cowboy Loy Pwerl. Genevieve paints her father’s country and the story of the Bush Turkey, for which he is senior custodian. Her paintings depict the tracks the bush turkey makes as it searches for seeds and other tucker and makes its way to the waterhole. On a more complex cultural level, her work is about women’s ceremonies of the Anmatyerr people and are a significant depiction of the relationship between Genevieve and her country in Utopia, Central Australia.

Genevieve also depicts the green plant called Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr that grows like a lawn alongside the road. It has white flowers on top and the bush turkey likes to eat the seeds. Genevieve’s paintings are characterised by a beautiful and careful handling of paint, a harmonious sense of colour and great control of the delicate spidery marks that make their way across her canvas. Her work shows a mature grasp of colour, design, and resolved aesthetic direction. These works represent Genevieve’s own re-imaging of the Dreaming stories.

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 120 cm | #18002

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 120 cm | #18001

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 90 x 198 cm | #17997

Artist CV SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2016 2014 2013 2012

2011 2010

Beyond Time, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston TX USA Visions of Utopia, Cooee Art Paddington, Sydney A Utopian Vision, Cooee Art Bondi, Sydney Finalist, Alice Prize, Alice Springs Art Foundation, Alice Springs, NT Narrativa Herióca - Pintura Aborígine do Deserto Australiano, Renaissance Hotel, São Paulo, Brazil & Arca Urbana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Finalist, 38th Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs Finalist, Fleurieu Art Prize, 2013, Maclaren Vale, South Australia Finalist,The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Museum of South Australia Blake Prize Director’s Cut on-line exhibition,The Blake Society Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney Finalist, Hawkesbury Art Prize, Purple Noon Gallery, Freemans Reach NSW Tattersalls Club Art Prize Award,Tattersalls Club, Brisbane Finalist, Metro Art Award, Metro Art Gallery, Melbourne The Churchie, Griffith University Art Gallery, Queensland College of Art Tattersall’s Club Art Prize Award,Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane, 2010 (Commended) Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, 2010, Sydney 59th Blake Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney

2010 2009

2008

2007

Metro Gallery Art Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Blake Prize,The Blake Society, National Art School Gallery, Sydney City of Albany Art Prize,Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany, WA Making their Mark: Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray and Genevieve Kemarr Loy, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne An Individual Perspective: From the Indigenous Collection of Lauraine Diggins, Deakin University Gallery, Burwood Impulse to Paint: The Artists of Iylenty, Utopia, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne Moscow World Fine Art Fair, Manege, Moscow, Russia The Churchie National Emerging Art, Morris Hall at Churchie, East Brisbane Annual Collectors’ Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne Australian Antiques & Art Dealers Fair, Sydney Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney Visions of Utopia, Cooee Art Bondi, Sydney Memory As Landscape, Masterpiece IXL, Hobart Utopia Today, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane Lauraine Diggins, Melbourne LITERATURE Impulse to Paint:The Artists of Iylenty, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art Melbourne, 2008 Annual Collectors’ Exhibition, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 2008

Genevieve Kemarr Loy | Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2019 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 120 x 120 cm | #18003

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