Abie Loy Kemarre Biography and CV
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Abie Loy Kemarre is an exciting and dynamic young artist who dramatically entered the art world with her early success in Europe and the USA. Born in 1972, Abie is an Eastern Anmatyerre speaker from Mosquito Bore, Utopia, Northern Territory. She is the eldest of five children raised by their mother, Margaret Loy, who is also a painter of note, and her father, Ray Loy Pwerle.
Abie grew up in a family of artists. From when she was five to seventeen years old, her mother, Margaret, and her grandmother, Kathleen Petyarre, were often busy producing batik and the township was regularly festooned with wildly coloured silk blowing in the wind. When Kathleen Petyarre and her sisters Gloria, Violet and Ada Bird Petyarre began painting on linen at nearby Delmore Gallery in April 1989, Abie was there, avidly learning the stories and watching her family members begin to produce the works of art that would soon make them famous. Abie was keen to try her hand at painting, but it was not until 1994 at the age of 22 that she asked for her first canvas from Delmore Gallery.
The Holts sent Abie’s work to selected galleries in Europe and the USA and to show certain dealers in Melbourne and Sydney. She was selected as a finalist in the Telstra Art awards in 1997 and again in 2001. Abie’s work was collected by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Art Gallery of South Australia and The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth. In the USA, she was collected by The Kelton Foundation, The Levi-Kaplan Foundation and the Seattle Art Museum. In Europe, she was collected by The Musee de Confluences, Lyon, France and the Foundation Colas Paris, France, and in Japan by The Ishibashi Foundation, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo.
Both Abie and her grandmother Kathleen painted almost exclusively for Delmore until 1999 when they both began to spend more time interstate. Between many interstate trips they both continued to visit Delmore to paint whenever they returned to Utopia. Abie now travels between Mosquito bore, Adelaide bore and Lake Nash (Alpurrurulam). Abie is one of the most successful of the younger, mid-career artists at Utopia and Delmore Gallery is proud to present a collection of Abie Loy Kemarre’s art for sale.
COLLECTIONS
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USAMusee de Confluences, Lyon, France
Foundation Colas, Paris, France
The Ishibashi Foundation, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Festival of Arts Foundation Collection, Adelaide
The Adelaide University Art Collection, Adelaide
The Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle, USA
The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
The Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission Collection
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Bush Leaf & Other Dreaming's, Gadfly Gallery, Perth2005 New Paintings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2005 Solo Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Solo Exhibition, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2004 Solo Exhibition, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
2003 First Solo Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Delmore Gallery: Utopia Women, Merricks Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia2017 Sacred Marks, JGM Gallery, London, U.K.
2015 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2015 Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2015 Territoires, Galerie Lionelle Courbet/ Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2015 Au cœur de l’art aborigène australien, Société Générale Private Banking/ Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Monaco
2015 Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2015 VIBRATIONS : au cœur de l’art aborigène, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob / ACABAS, Paris, France
2014 Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2014 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2014 Les Flâneries d'Art Contemporain en jardin aixois, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Aix-en-Provence, France
2014 Art d’Australie, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob / Barclays, Paris, France
2013 Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2013 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2013 Arts d’Australie, Galerie 49/ Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Saumur, France
2013 Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 J.I.M.A.B.E., Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Cape Town
2012 Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2012 Art Gent, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Gent, Belgium
2012 Ancestral Modern Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2011 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2011 Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2011 Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Paris, France
2011 Galerie AROA & Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Neuilly sur Seine, France
2011 Art Contemporain, galerie Clarus & Arts d’Australie - Stéphane Jacob, Ligny le Ribault, France
2010 Tradition to Modernity, Tasmania, Central Art
2008 Utopia Modern Women's Collection 1999 - 2002, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
2008 Light & Space, The Chicho Museum, Naoshima, Japan
2008 Jewels of the Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2007 Parcours des Mondes, Galerie Anne & Just Jaeckin, Arts d'Australie Stephane Jacob, Paris, France
2007 The Best of the Best, Jewels of the Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2007 Treasures of the Spirit, Creative Returns: Investing in Aboriginal Art, Tandanya, Adelaide
2007 Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition, University of NSW, Sydney
2007 Aboriginal Art, 2007, Scott Livesy Galleries, Armadale
2007 Utopia & Beyond 2007, Aboriginal art from East to West, Coo-ee Gallery, Avalon Recreation Centre, Avalon, NSW
2006 Prism, Contemporary Australian Art, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
2006 Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,
2006 Recent Painting, Kathleen Petyarre & Abie Loy, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2006 Abie Loy & Kathleen Petyarre, New Paintings, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2005 Aboriginal Vision in Contemporary Australian Art, Levi - Kaplan Collection, The Wright Exhibition Centre, Seattle, WA, USA
2005 Utopia & Beyond, Maunsell Wicks, Sydney
2005 Dreamings, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2004 Arrnkerthe, New Paintings, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
2003 Abie Loy - Recent Paintings, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Abie Loy & Violet Petyarre, Recent Paintings, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2001 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition, Darwin
2000 The Collection, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, SA Utopia, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1999 North by North East, Landscape & Ceremonial paintings from Utopia, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 SALA Week, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
1999 Joint Indonesian - Utopia Batik Workshop for Third Pacific Arts
1999 Utopia Recent Works, King Street Gallery, Perth, WA 1998 Our Country Then and Now, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
1999 Raiki Wara: Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998 15th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Exhibition, Darwin, NT, Australia
1998 Utopia Dreamings, Japingka Gallery, Perth
1997 Schilderijen uit Utopia, Songlines Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Dreampower, Art of Contemporary Aboriginal Australia, Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Bali
1997 Dreampower, Art of Contemporary Aboriginal Australia, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
1997 Ardiyanto, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1997 Documenta, Kasel, Germany
1997 14th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Touring Art Exhibition
1997 The Alice Prize Art Exhibition, Alice Springs
ARTFAIRS
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, 3- 6th August Melbourne2004 Melbourne Art Fair, 29 Sept - 3 Oct, Melbourne
2003 Art Miami 2003, January 10 - 14, Miami, Florida, USA
2003 ARCO Art Fair Madrid, February 13 - 17th, Madrid, Spain
2003 Aboriginal Art Fair, Sydney
AWARDS
2001 Finalist in 18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)1997 Finalist in 14th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
