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Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 196 × 303 cm. Collection of Bérengère Primat, courtesy Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Vincent Girier Dufournier
Sally Gabori painting Dibirdibi Country. Art & Craft Center, Mornington Island, 2009 Video 48’08’’ © The Estate of Sally Gabori. Video © Inge Cooper
Detail of Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki, 2010. Peinture polymère synthétique sur toile de lin, 196 × 303 cm. Collection Bérengère Primat, courtesy Fondation Opale, Lens, Suisse. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Vincent Girier Dufournier
Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki, 2008. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 199 × 461 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australie. Purchased with funds donated by Colin Golvan, 2008. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © National Gallery of Victoria
Sally Gabori, Dibirdibi Country, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 196 × 456 cm. Collection of Garance Primat, Geneva, Switzerland. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Marian Gérard, Studio Gérard, Geneva, Switzerland
Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki, 2009. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 198 × 607 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia. Purchased in 2011. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © National Gallery of Australia
Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 196 × 300 cm. Private collection, Adelaide, Australia. © The Estate of Sally Gabori. Photo © Simon Strong
Sally Gabori singing and painting Ninjilki. Art and Craft Centre, Mornington Island, 2008. Video © Inge Cooper
Sally Gabori painting Nyinyilki. Art and Craft Centre, Mornington Island, 2008. Photo © Inge Cooper
Sally Gabori, Dibirdibi Country, 2011. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 198 × 455 cm. Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Simon Strong
Sally Gabori, Dibirdibi Country, 2008. Synthetic polymer on linen, 198 × 304 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2010. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © National Gallery of Victoria
Sally Gabori, Dibirdibi Country, 2008. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 200 × 600 cm. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. Purchased 2008 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Merinda Campbell, QAGOMA
Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 200 × 470 cm. Collection HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast, Australie. Gifted by the citizens of the Gold Coast to future generations 2019. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Peter Waddington
Sally Gabori, Nyinyilki – Main Base , 2009. Private collection, Adelaide, Australia. © The Estate of Sally Gabori. / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Simon Strong.
Her father’s Country around Thundi, and her brother King Alfred’s Country around the mouth of the Makarrki river in the north of the island, feature frequently as themes in her paintings. Nicholas Evans, “The Eye of the Dolphin: Sally Gabori and the Kaiadilt Vision”, in Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori. Publication Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 2022.
Sally Gabori, Thundi, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 196 × 300 cm. Private collection, Melbourne, Australia. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Simon Strong
Abandoning herself to spatiality and memory, Sally Gabori uses shifting colors to irradiate her canvases, offering a luminous representation of the landscape of Bentinck Island: salt pans, estuaries, rocky ridges, mangroves, rivers, reefs, stone fish traps, but also the fresh water source where Dibirdibi met his demise. The power of the artist’s gesture lies in the evocation of the sensations associated with these places, to which she was culturally and intimately linked.
Sally Gabori, Dibirdibi Country, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 200 × 305 cm. Estate Sally Gabori, Cairns and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Simon Strong
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