Bush Seeds 2000 by Abie Kemarre Loy 130x51cm

This mesmerising painting in soft pinks and yellow ochre colours, titled "Bush Seeds 2000", by well known Utopian artist Abie Kemarre Loy relates to the seeds of a plant known as Titye , a tree whose leaf is used in traditional bush medicine.

During ceremony, the leaves of the Titye are picked as new growth, boiled with fat and then rubbed into the skin, acting somewhat like a muscle tonic. Healing internally as well as externally.

Abie says this particular bush medicine is still made and used by the people of her country today.

Ikwerthey anter-anem thelem, apernelheyew-anem antywerlenyel”
Then you pour the fat into it and rub yourself with the antywerleny