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Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015) was born on Bentinck Island, a small island of the Gulf of Carpentaria, off northwestern Queensland, in northern Australia, where her people, the Kaiadilt, lived a traditional life. In 1948, the Kaiadilt residents were evacuated to a Presbyterian mission on Mornington Island. In 2005, an art and craft center opened on Mornington. Sally Gabori, then aged 81, started attending its painting workshops, which would finally prove to be an epiphany. During her short career, she created about 3,000 paintings, from small to very large-scale canvases, some of which are part of major Australian institutions' collections.
"Offers new perspectives on Aboriginal art, whose complex cosmology and diverse range of pictorial expression remains understudied in comparison to non-Indigenous art movements.--Gabriella Angeleti ""Art Newspaper"" Suggesting bird's-eye views of coastal landscapes, Gabori and her collaborators do more than just map physical terrain from memory. With vibrant colors and loving attention to detail they've created a trace of what these places felt like and meant to them.--Katie Kheriji-Watts ""Hyperallergic"""
