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Sally Gabori was born around 1924 on the south side of Bentinck Island of the South Wellesley Island Group in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. In 1946 and 1947 severe drought affected the communities in the gulf area and in 1948 Bentinck Island had great tidal waves or high tides. This culminated in a deterioration of the Kaiadilt homelands and the Presbyterian Missionaries transported the entire population to their Mission on Mornington Island. Gabori came to Mornington Island with her husband, Pat Gabori, as one of his four wives. She came to painting late in her life, however she received critical acclaim as a finalist in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award, Queensland Art Gallery, and the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, both in 2006. Major works by Gabori were acquired by the Musee du quai Branly, Paris, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane as well as major private collections. Gabori went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and represented Australia in the 2013 Venice Biennale.

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori was a senior Kaiadilt woman and a contemporary artist who has left behind an astonishing cultural legacy. Informed by knowledge of Country, cartography, and cosmology, Gabori’s painting practice responded intuitively to the colors, sounds, and feelings of Country. Throughout her work she represented her homelands on Bentinck Island, and sites of deep personal significance—including her husband’s place, Dibirdibi Country, her father’s place, Thundi, her own Country, Mirdidingki, and the first outstation, Nyinyilki.

While born on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, due to extensive droughts and tidal waves from 1947–48, Gabori and the rest of her Kaiadilt community were relocated by Methodist missionaries to Lardil Country on Mornington Island. Here, Gabori continued to live a traditional life, and shared her skills and knowledge, including the art of rolling bark string and making dilly bags and coolamons. She was an accomplished singer of Kaiadilt songs, integral parts of cultur

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Sally Gabori

Australian Indigenous Kaiadilt artist

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c.1924 – 11 February 2015) was an Aboriginal Australian artist who at age 81 began painting in an abstract-like style she developed to represent her Country, on the south side of Bentinck Island in Queensland, Australia.

She represented Australia in the 55th Venice Biennale of 2013, and her works are held in the permanent collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; the National Gallery of Australia; all of the Australian state galleries, and others.

Early life

Gabori was born c.1924 at Mirdidingki on the south side of Bentinck Island, the largest island in the South Wellesley Group in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. As a young woman she lived a traditional lifestyle on Bentinck Island, largely uninfluenced by Europeans. She gathered food, including shellfish, from the complex system of stone fish traps her people had built in the shallows around the island. She helped to build and maintain the stone walls of the fish traps, was an adept maker of string,