Sally Gabori - (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

Offers new perspectives on Aboriginal art, whose complex cosmology and diverse range of pictorial expression remains understudied in comparison to non-Indigenous art movements.--Gabriella Angeleti "Art Newspaper"

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.--Katie Kheriji-Watts "Hyperallergic"