Ollie Kemmare is from Utopia in the heart of Australia's central desert, where Aboriginal painting originated in the 1970s. Here, she depicts the dream of the wild plum. According to this dream, Great Ancestors emerged from the primordial magma and created a waterhole called Arlperre on the artist's people's land, which still exists today. It was around this waterhole that the first desert plum trees grew, whose fruit is still harvested by the Aboriginal people. The women who held this Dream of fertility celebrated it through ceremonies in which they smeared their skin with emu fat. Their bodies were then painted by their peers using natural pigments whose colors reflected those of the plums according to their stage of ripeness.
Ollie KEMMARE
Bush Plum , 1997
Art : Aboriginal
Origine : Utopia
Dimensions : 90 x 120 cm
Medium : Acrylic on canvas
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N° : 4401

