Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

Exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Paris, 3 July - 6 November 2022

A member of the Kaiadilt Aboriginal community in northern Australia, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c. 1924-2015) lived a traditional life until the age of 24, when she was relocated to the nearby island of Mornington in 1948.

In 2005, at the age of 80, she painted her first canvas, which marked the beginning of a dazzling artistic career. Combinations of colours, play of forms, superimpositions of surfaces: for a decade Sally Gabori painted relentlessly, on sometimes immense canvases, the landscapes of her native island, which she had not seen since her exile. When she died in 2015, she left behind a body of work of more than 2000 canvases, which fascinates by its spontaneity and absolute originality.

This catalogue, which accompanies Sally Gabori's first exhibition in Europe, brings together more than 90 works to discover the singular and colourful work of this extraordinary painter, who is one of Australia's greatest contemporary artists.