exibition year: 2010

Sally Gabori’s tribal name is Mirdidingkingathi Jurwarnda. Jurwarnda means ‘dolphin’, which is her totemic sign, and Mirdidingkingathi means ‘born at Mirdidingki’ which is her country on the south side of Bentinck island. The English name Gabori comes from her husband Pat Gabori and is a corruption of his birthplace name, Kabararrji. Her father was born […]

I have a curiosity about youth … about young people and their heightened exploration of life. It is a hopeful exploration, without an immediate resolution or meaning, and I am interested in capturing them at moments between hope and unease. Between promise and disaster. They carry the experimental nature of their existence so easily at […]

Mabel Juli Marietta Bray David Cox Colleen Carter Warmun Art Centre was established in 1998 and is located 200km south of Kununurra in the spectacular surrounds of the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. The national and international reputation of Warmun art is due in great part to the leadership of Gija artists such as […]

Since completing his study at the University of New South Wales in 1999 Aboriginal artist Jonathan Jones (Kamilaroi / Wiradjuri) has been winning prizes and making waves throughout Australia for his dazzling installations of fluorescent tubes and incandescent bulbs. Using everyday materials such as electric cabling, household light bulbs and tarpaulin, Jones reveals textural surfaces […]