Sally Gabori

Style Her works have been described as abstract expressionism and gestural abstraction, but art theory was not an influence on her work, since Gabori had little English. Many of her paintings represent the sea, sky and land of her country, but she is thought to be not so much engaging with an audience as engaging with her country.

Awards and nominations

2012 Winner – The 2012 Gold Award 2012 Winner – Togart Contemporary Art Award

Major exhibitions

2005 Sally's Story, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2013 Danda ngijinda dulk, danda ngijinda malaa, danda ngad – This is my Land, this is my Sea. This is who I am. A survey exhibition of paintings by Sally Gabori, 2005–2012, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University 2013 Personal Structures, 55th Venice Biennale 2013, Palazzo Bembo, Venice 2016 Dulka Warngiid – Land of All, 21 May 2016 – 28 Aug 2016, QAGOMA and 23 September 2016 – 29 January 2017, the Ian Potter Centre 2022 Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori – July 2022 to November 2022 – Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, France

Public collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales (3 works, Dibirdibi country 2010, 2012, 2012) Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tomaki (Dibirdibi country, River at King Alfred's country and Dibirdibi country) Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1 work, Makarrki 2008) Musée du Quai Branly (Ninjilki 2006) National Gallery of Australia (7 works including Nyinyilki 2009, My Country 2009) National Gallery of Victoria (11 works including Dibirdibi country, and Rockcod story place Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane