Amanda Jane Gabori Kayardild, b. 1966

Amanda Gabori is the youngest daughter of the late painter Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c.1924-2015) . Born in  1966 in the township of Gununa on Mornington Island. Amanda started painting with her mother in the early 2000s as she " saw how much pleasure painting brought her mother and how her mother had loved that, through her paintings, she could relate the stories and landscape of her sea country and its people around the world". . 

Since 2010, Amanda has exhibited in leading private galleries around Australia, as well as  public galleries including Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art and in the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Her main painting themes are those of her mother and father's  Country of Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. In her work Amanda depicts its striking rock formations, tidal waterholes, its sweeping lands where the sky meets the sea, and the scales that cover the body of the small river cod, Dibirdibi which is her language name and her totem given to her by her father.