Text by Nicholas Evans, Judith Ryan, Bruce McLean.
A selection of the late Indigenous Australian artist’s jubilantly colorful abstractions
The Indigenous Australian artist Sally Gabori (c. 1924–2015) began painting late in life, at about the age of 80. Over the course of her 10-year career, she produced around 3,000 paintings, a volume that speaks to the unfettered passion with which she embarked upon her art. Published in conjunction with the artist’s first retrospective in France, this monograph features 96 artworks, including the selection of 30 paintings in the exhibition. The book invites further discovery of Gabori’s colorful, abstract oeuvre—which is keenly informed by the history of her people, the Kaiadilt—with contributions from Nicolas Evans, a scholar of Kaiadilt culture and friend of Sally Gabori’s family, as well as Judith Ryan and Bruce McLean, curators of Indigenous art. These contributors read her practice through the context of Indigenous traditions.
Featured photograph, of Sally Gabori alongside her work "Dibirdibi Countr" (2009), Mornington Island Arts and Crafts Centre, 2009, is reproduced from 'Sally Gabori.'
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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.
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Evocative and immediate, "Thundi" (2010) is reproduced from 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." continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 12 x 11.25 in. / 268 pgs / 190 color / 17 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $70.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $98 ISBN: 9782869251724 PUBLISHER: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain AVAILABLE: 10/11/2022 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Text by Nicholas Evans, Judith Ryan, Bruce McLean.
A selection of the late Indigenous Australian artist’s jubilantly colorful abstractions
The Indigenous Australian artist Sally Gabori (c. 1924–2015) began painting late in life, at about the age of 80. Over the course of her 10-year career, she produced around 3,000 paintings, a volume that speaks to the unfettered passion with which she embarked upon her art. Published in conjunction with the artist’s first retrospective in France, this monograph features 96 artworks, including the selection of 30 paintings in the exhibition.
The book invites further discovery of Gabori’s colorful, abstract oeuvre—which is keenly informed by the history of her people, the Kaiadilt—with contributions from Nicolas Evans, a scholar of Kaiadilt culture and friend of Sally Gabori’s family, as well as Judith Ryan and Bruce McLean, curators of Indigenous art. These contributors read her practice through the context of Indigenous traditions.
