The Gabori Sisters: Gathering By The Sea

Parents and carers should grab the opportunity to take young art lovers to The Gabori Sisters: Gathering by the Sea – a large-scale interactive project at GOMA’s Children’s Art Centre.

In conjunction with Dulka Warngiid – Land of All, the major retrospective of the indigenous artist, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, at the Queensland Art Gallery, this exciting project has been developed in collaboration with Sally Gabori’s three daughters, Dorothy, Elsie and Amanda Gabori.

The Gabori Sisters: Gathering by the Sea focuses on the profound and unique relationship these sisters share with the sea and explores their connection with their homeland of Bentinck Island – the place so prominently featured in many of their late mother’s artworks. These Kaiadilt women have created some very special hands-on and multimedia activities based on memories and stories of their homeland.

The kids will have a ball as well as learning about the rich cultural history of Bentinck Island – they can decorate a rock wall with collaged sea creatures and discover their own Kaiadilt animal. Merging the old and traditional with new technologies they’ll also be able to build a digital humpy and navigate an under-the-sea interactive animation. This project is a very special must-do outing that the whole family will enjoy.

By Vicki Englund