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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 fam