A close relative of the women artists who made the Utopia school famous, Abie Loy Kemarre has created a highly spectacular work here.

The ‘Bush Leaf’ was dictated to her by religious imperatives: this plant is linked to a sacred territory for which Abie Loy and her family are responsible. By staging it, she is demonstrating her ritual ‘ownership’ of the site where the plant grows, and fulfilling a duty to remember, since it was her great ancestors who created the place. The plant that grows in the summer is also a symbol of fertility in a region with a climate that is often arid, and to devote a painting to it is both to bear witness to the reality of this fertility and to ensure it for the future.