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Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015) developed a distinctive abstract language to depict Bentinck Island, her ancestral homeland in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria, from memory after her forced displacement. Beginning to paint at age eighty-one, she transformed recollections of rivers, reefs, fishing grounds, and sacred Kaiadilt Countries into dynamic compositions of luminous color and gestural brushwork. Her paintings form a powerful archive of place, memory, and cultural continuity.
