Abie Loy is part of the new generation of artists from the Utopia community, deep in the Australian desert. She began painting in 1994 on the advice of her grandmother, the renowned Kathleen Petyarre, who guided her in her early works, inspired by the “dreams” of which she is the ritual guardian.
In this work, she depicts the fragile and delicate bush plant: the sensitive plant. As soon as you touch this plant, it comes to life and retracts.
Remarkable for its variation on the theme of dot painting, the impression of breathing it gives off, and the hypnotic character of the motifs animated by a simultaneously centrifugal and centripetal movement, this canvas itself demonstrates the high degree of awareness and aesthetic achievement that Abie Loy has achieved—proof of the high quality of desert painting and its inherent inventiveness.
