Скачать или смотреть 2022 Queensland Greats Awards - Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

The Queensland Greats Awards recognises extraordinary Queenslanders who have made a long term contribution to, or whose achievements have significantly impacted, the history and development of Queensland.

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (circa 1924-2015) was born on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria off the coast of far north Queensland. She was a celebrated contemporary Queensland Indigenous artist who made a significant international impact in the art world. She represented a living connection to the ancestry and geography of her people across an exceptional output of paintings, and left a legacy of culturally important paintings that are in the collections of national and international galleries, helping to inspire the next generation of Indigenous Australian artists. She was one of the last surviving keepers of Kaiadilt language, traditions, stories and culture. Her language name, Mirdidingkingathi, means ‘born at Mirdidingki’, her country on Bentinck Island, and Juwarnda means ‘dolphin’, her totem.

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