Centre to produce and market traditional crafts, including Gabori's fine weaving. She was offered paints for the first time at a workshop in April 2005. The Kaiadilt community had no two-dimensional art traditions before 2005, so Gabori had nothing to draw on but her memory of her country. When Indigenous Australian artist Melville Escott looked at Gabori's first painting, he could identify "the river, sandbar, ripples the fish leave on the water, her brother King Alfred's country and the fish traps she used to look after". Her enthusiasm for painting grew until she was painting five days a week, every day the centre was open. Towards the end of her career, Gabori painted collaborative works with two of her daughters, and encouraged her other daughters into the art centre, to help develop a new generation of Kaiadilt painters. Over the short eight years of her painting career, she produced over 2000 paintings, and almost all major institutions in Australia acquired her works. Gabori's work has featured in over 28 solo exhibitions and been part of more than 100 group exhibitions. Style Her works have been described as abstract expressionism and gestural abstraction, but art theory was not an influence on her work, since Gabori had little English. Many of her paintings represent the sea, sky and land of her country, but she is thought to be not so much engaging with an audience as engaging with her country. Death and legacy Gabori died on 11 February 2015. Awards and nominations 2012 Winner – The 2012 Gold Award 2012 Winner – Togart Contemporary Art Award Major exhibitions 2005 Sally’s Story, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2013 Danda ngijinda dulk, danda ngijinda malaa, danda ngad – This is my Land, this is my Sea. This is who I am. A survey exhibition of paintings by Sally Gabori, 2005–2012, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University 2013 Personal Structures, 55th Venice Biennale 2013, Palazzo Bembo, Venice 2016 Dulka Warngiid – Land of All, 21 May 2016 – 28 Aug 2016, QAGOMA and 23 September 2016 – 29 January 2017, the Ian Potter Centre 2022 Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori - July 2022 to November 2022 - Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, France Public collections Art Gallery of New South Wales (3 works, Dibirdibi country 2010, 2012 , 2012) Art Gallery of South Australia Art Gallery of Western Australia Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tomaki