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"I joined my mum painting as she was really enjoying it. I paint my Country on Bentinck Island and the scales that cover Dibirdibi...the small river rock cod that is also my name, given to me by my father."  Amanda Jane Gabori 

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MORNINGTON ISLAND ART

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of NAIDOC Week and its 2025 theme - The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy, Everywhen Art is presenting a solo exhibition by the Mornington Island-based artist Amanda Jane Gabori.


Amanda Gabori was born in 1966 in the township of Gununa on Mornington Island. She is the youngest daughter of the famous painter, the late Sally Gabori whose works are currently featuring in a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Amanda says that she started painting with her mother about 15 years ago, 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. Amanda says she is honoured and proud to continue her mother's legacy. 

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 her mother and father's  country of Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. In her work she 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. 

 

 Join Everywhen Art curators Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs for a floor talk:  Strength, Vision & Legacy; the art of Amanda Jane Gabori

Saturday July 12 at 2.30 pm

RSVP info@everywhenart.com.au  

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