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- Region
- Eastern Desert
- Community
- Utopia
- Language group
- Eastern Anmatyerre
Bush Leaf Dreaming, 2008
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
76 x 76 cm
$6,000
- Provenance
- Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, SA, Cat No. GAAL11081535 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Exhibited
- Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Paddington, NSW, July 2009 Black and White, NG Art Gallery, Chippendale NSW, December 2008 Desert Winter Dreaming, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, June 2012 Metamorphosis Paintings, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, October 2009 Love Letters from Camel Camp, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, September 2009
- Artwork story
- Under Eastern Anmatyerr Law, Abie Loy Kemarre has the right to portray several Dreamings. These include the Bush Hen and Bush Leaf Dreaming. The bush leaf grows in a swamp near some sandhills close to the Utopia region in Abie’s grandfather’s country and it is known for its wonderful curative properties. These bush leaves are able to cure a whole range of illnesses including colds, headaches, and sores. The Bush Leaf, as a Dreaming, is closely associated with women, and is a shape-shifter, a state-changer, possessing the ability to transform herself from her bush leaf-form into a woman and back into a leaf again.