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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori : dulka warngiid : land of all / Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: South Brisbane, Queensland : Queensland Art Gallery, 2022.Description: 139 pages : colour illustrations, map ; 26 x 27 cmISBN:
  • 9781925922097 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Sally Gabori : land of all
  • Dulka warngiid
  • Land of all
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 759.994 23
Contents:
Foreword / Chris Saines -- Dulka Warngiid: the whole world / Bruce McLean -- Broken colour and unbound space / Judith Ryan -- Plates: early paintings -- Mirdidingki: my country -- Thundi: my father's country -- Dingkari: my grandfather's country -- Nibirdibi: my father's county -- The Gabori Sisters: gathering by the sea / Laura Mudge -- List of works.
Summary: This beautifully illustrated publication features works drawn from public and private collections in an exhibition surveying the life and work of the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori c.1924-2015, the distinguished senior Kaiadilt woman artist from Bentinck Island in the Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. One of Australia's most extraordinary practitioners, Mrs Gabori was incredibly prolific over her short career. Her indefatigable zeal to communicate her stories, knowledge, and experiences accumulated over an incredible life -- spanning over 90 years from traditional life to the coming of the Australian frontier to contemporary globalised Australia -- won her great admiration and has left an astonishing cultural legacy.
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Catalogue of a Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art touring exhibition held at Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art from May 21-August 28, 2016; and the National Gallery of Victoria from September 23, 2016-January 31, 2017. Curator, Bruce McLean.

Bibliography: page 134.

Foreword / Chris Saines -- Dulka Warngiid: the whole world / Bruce McLean -- Broken colour and unbound space / Judith Ryan -- Plates: early paintings -- Mirdidingki: my country -- Thundi: my father's country -- Dingkari: my grandfather's country -- Nibirdibi: my father's county -- The Gabori Sisters: gathering by the sea / Laura Mudge -- List of works.

This beautifully illustrated publication features works drawn from public and private collections in an exhibition surveying the life and work of the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori c.1924-2015, the distinguished senior Kaiadilt woman artist from Bentinck Island in the Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. One of Australia's most extraordinary practitioners, Mrs Gabori was incredibly prolific over her short career. Her indefatigable zeal to communicate her stories, knowledge, and experiences accumulated over an incredible life -- spanning over 90 years from traditional life to the coming of the Australian frontier to contemporary globalised Australia -- won her great admiration and has left an astonishing cultural legacy.

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