#mirdidingkingathi juwarnda sally gabori

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CONTEMPORARY ART (1) 🧶 love, ur local art mom 🩵

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hi I’m annemarie and I’m an art historian! not adjuncting for the first time in five years was rly hard for me so I threw some slides together so I could still (sort of) teach the same material as my language of art class but a) I threw these slides together for instagram so space was/is limited and b) language of art is a ten week run through art history so I’m presenting only the most accessible information here – there’s so much more to this art period and to these artists! – please don’t expect it to be comprehensive and please do ask if you have any questions!

oh p.s. my first ever class of art history students came up with the name ‘art mom’ for me at the end of the quarter and yes it does make me cry if I think about it too long thanks so much for asking

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c1924-2015)

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, (1924 - 2015) an amazing aboriginal artist who started painting in her 80s.

Sally Gabori was born around 1924 on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, a small island of the Kaiadilt people. Her tribal name, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda, means ‘dolphin born at Mirdidingki’. Gabori lived her first twenty-three years according to an unbroken ancestral culture, uninfluenced by the encroachment of Europeans. Yet in 1948, following severe drought and a tidal wave that struck Bentinck Island, the Kaiadilt people were moved to the Presbyterian Mission on nearby Mornington Island. Here Gabori bore eleven children, raising them along with several others of her husband’s children to other wives, as is Kaiadilt tradition. Although she spent most of her life away from her country, Gabori maintained Kaiadilt culture, singing its songs with family and community, fishing and gathering bush foods. She remained on Mornington Island until the 1980s, when some of the Kaiadilt people began to return to their ancestral country after the Land Rights movement saw small outstations erected on Bentinck.

Gabori didn’t hold a paintbrush until she was in her eighties. She was first introduced to painting materials in 2005 while at the Mornington Island Arts and Crafts Centre. Her immediate love of paint and raw talent triggered an outpouring of artistic expression as Gabori instinctively engaged with a full spectrum of colour to visualise the glories of her country. Mixing wet paints on canvas to create tonal shifts and gestural brushstrokes, she evoked geological and ecological flux on Bentinck. Bold, hard-edged forms and sharp colour contrasts describe enduring natural structures such as ancient rock-walled fish traps, or the cliffs meeting the ocean.

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Sally Gabori (Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda), Thundi, 2010

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"Ninjilki" de Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (2006) dans les collections permanentes du Musée du Quai Branly, février 2024.

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/Amo5sZC

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda SALLY GABORI La pittura dell’aborigena Sally Gabori in mostra alla Triennale è arcaica ma possiede una potenza espressiva che la rende straordinaria.

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Thundi, 2010, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 78 × 59 1/2"

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Women’s History Month: Women in Art History

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Aboriginal Australian artist (1924-2015)

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Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015)

[annemarieyeretzian]

Sally Gabori 

Sally Gabori (born Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda), an Australian aboriginal artist, is known for her colorful abstract paintings. Each painting is a translation of her experience of aboriginal culture.

As a youth, Sally gathered food from stone traps, helped to build and maintain stone walls, was an adept weaver of dilly bags and coolamons, and a well-known singer of Kaiadilt songs.

After contact with European Christian missionaries in the 1940s, Sally and her family – in fact, the entire population of Bentinck Island – were forcibly removed to a reservation on Mornington Island.

Sally only started to paint at the age of 81. In 2005, she and her husband were living at an Aged Person Hostel at Gununa. Sally was offered paints for the first time at a workshop established at the Mornington Island Centre. She had nothing to draw on but her memory of her country. Pictured: My Father's Country.

“When Indigenous artist Melville Escott looked at Gabori's first painting, he could identify ‘the river, sandbar, ripples the fish leave on the water… and the fish traps she used to look after.’ Her enthusiasm for painting grew until she was painting… every day the centre was open.” Pictured: Dibirdibi Country.

“Gabori created a body of work, which expressed sensations of life and cultural memory in diaspora.” Sally Gabori exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and represented Australia in the 2013 Venice Biennale. Pictured: Dibirdibi Country.

“Over the eight short years of her painting career, Sally produced over 2000 paintings, and almost all major institutions in Australia acquired her works. [Her] work has featured in over 28 solo exhibitions and been part of more than 100 group exhibitions.” Pictured: River at my Father's Country.

“Her works have been described as abstract expressionism and gestural abstraction, but art theory was not an influence on her work… Many of her paintings represent the sea, sky and land of her country, but she is… not so much engaging with an audience as engaging with her country.” Pictured: Dingkarri.

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Sally Gabori (Indigenous Australian painter) ca. 1924 - 2015 (full name: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori )

Dibirdibi Country, 2007

synthetic polymer paint on linen

198 x 101 cm. (77.92 x 39.75 in.)

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national gallery victoria

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We can't get enough of Fondation Cartier's exquisite new monograph on Sally Gabori (aka Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda), the late Indigenous Australian artist who began painting in her eighties—after decades of forced exile from her ancestral home—and left an archive of approximately 3000 paintings by the time of her death in 2015. Filled with vivid details and numerous gatefold reproductions in the plate section, this 268-page visual treasure-trove and teller of problematic histories also includes several smaller bound-in booklets-within-the-book, printed on special papers and focused on themes like archival photographs or Gabori's original Kaiadilt landscape. "This is my land," Gabori is quoted, "this is my sea, this is who I am."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Published by @fondationcartier⁠ Text by Nicholas Evans, Judith Ryan, Bruce McLean.⁠ ⁠ #SallyGabori #MirdidingkingathiJuwarndaSallyGabori #aboriginalart #indigenousart #australianart #contemporaryart #colors #painting @brucemcleanofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgEEfvOt8x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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mirdidingkingathi juwarnda sally gabori

makarrki (2009)

thundi (2013)

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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (Australian, 1924–2015), Dibirdibi Country, 2011, 120 x 91 cm