Amanda Jane Gabori

Painter Sally Gabori (c.1924-2015) from Bentick Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria is one of Australia’s most famous contemporary artists with bold canvases that capture the vitality of her sea country. Now her youngest daughter Amanda Jane Gabori, 59, who started painting alongside her mother 15 years ago, is carrying on the tradition. Amanda paints her mother’s Bentick Island country as well as that of her father – especially the scales of her totem animal, the small river rock cod called Dibirdibi.

Presented in partnership with Mornington Island Art the exhibition opens on July 5 in celebration of NAIDOC Week and runs to July 27.

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Image: AMANDA JANE GABORI
MY MOTHER’S COUNTRY, 2016
acrylic on canvas
91 x 121 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Mornington Island Arts