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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, 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, 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, Dibirdibi Country, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 199 × 607 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Collection Benefactors’ Group, 2010. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © AGNSW
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
Sally Gabori painting Dibirdibi Country. Art & Craft Center, Mornington Island, 2010. Photo © Inge Cooper
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, 2012 Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 121 × 484 cm (4 pannels, 121 × 121 cm each). Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. Purchased 2014 with funds from Margaret Millelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Sally Gabori, Thundi – Big River, 2010. Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 196 × 306 cm. David Gyngell and Leila McKinnon, Sydney, Australia. © The Estate of Sally Gabori / Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo © Mark Pokorny
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
Sally Gabori painting Nyinyilki. Art and Craft Centre, Mornington Island, 2008. Photo © Inge Cooper
Sally Gabori painting Dibiridibi. Art & Craft Center, Mornington Island, 2008. Photo © Inge Cooper
Sally Gabori painting Thundi. Art & Craft Center, Mornington Island, 2010. 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 painting Dibirdibi Country. Art & Craft Center, Mornington Island, 2009 Video 48’08’’ © The Estate of Sally Gabori. Video © Inge Cooper
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