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Indigenous Australian art

EXPANDED LABEL: 2019.145 RENNIE

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2017.353 GABORI

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2015.142 NAPANGATI

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2019.056a-l HARDING

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A detail view of an abstract painting made with bright red, blue and black paint against a white background.
DULKA WARNGIID - LAND OF ALL

Gabori's Makarrki 2008

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ESSAY: Danie Mellor — Landspace

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A detail view of an abstract artwork representing string over blue water.
WATER

Judy Watson

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An installation view that appears as a large midden of white shells piled in front of a white gallery wall, in a corner.
GONE FISHING

SEA RIGHTS: Politics, lore and custom

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EXPANDED LABEL: 1993.345 MILPURRURRU TREMBLAY

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2020.049 RARRU

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An installation view of a gallery space set over an indoor pond or water feature, on which three memorial poles are displayed on a plinth.

ESSAY: LARRAKITJ (MEMORIAL POLES)

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A detail view of an abstract artwork made with deep pinky-purple, light pink and yellow paint.
DULKA WARNGIID - LAND OF ALL

A gift of works by Sally Gabori

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Four string bags woven from wire and feathers.
WATER

Lorraine Connelly-Northey

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A cropped installation view of five woven fish traps made in varying earth-tones.
GONE FISHING

TRAPS, TACKLE AND GEAR

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ESSAY: 'Samsara' series / FOLEY MELLOR

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A detail view of an abstract painting made with black and white paints.

EXPANDED LABEL: 2014.323a-d GABORI

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A detail view of a painting made with bright red, pink, teal and white paint.
DULKA WARNGIID - LAND OF ALL

Gabori's large-scale paintings

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2022.084 AH KEE

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A detail view of an abstract painting made with bright pinks, oranges and teals with white and black lines.
BIOGRAPHY

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2022.215a- MELLOR

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A work that appears as a midden of oyster shells on black sand, installed on the floor of a gallery space.
WATER

Megan Cope

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ESSAY: 2004.205 BAYPUNGALA / Nganiyal

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2002.057 WURRKIDJ

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Kulama by Timothy Cook

EXPANDED LABEL: 2012.490 2013.005 COOK

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Four sculptural works resembling tiny books, with the pages shaped into even tinier three-dimensional church shapes, installed in a gallery vitrine
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Archie Moore: On a Mission from God

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Tony Albert: Visible

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A colourful abstract artwork by First Nations artist Naomi Hobson, painted using traditional techniques.
GONE FISHING

ALONG THE SHORELINE

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2003.043 WURRKIDJ

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ESSAY: 2003.162 PWERLE

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ESSAY: 2004.089 Judy BAYPUNGALA

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