Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori - Artist Info

About Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

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Sally Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Gabori
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    Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori was an Australian artist from Bentinck Island in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. She grew up living off the natural abundance of the surrounding ocean and estuaries in the traditions of the Kaiadilt. In 1948, she was forced to relocate to Gununa on nearby Mornington Island due to natural disasters. In 2005, she was invited to participate in an art workshop at the Mornington Island Art Centre where her early paintings of fish and sea-life were recognized for their unique and colorful expression of her personal and family stories. Her artistic repertory consisted of six main subjects, all of them places on Bentinck Island. By painting each place over and over, she relived memories of the people and pl...

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