Forever Now, Rockhampton Art Gallery,Queensland

'The 2010's is well represented by female artists. Significant works include Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori’s painting Dibirdibi Country, 2011 and Kate Shaw’s video artwork Continuum, 2018. Gabori was a senior Kaiadilt artist born on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. Gabori began practicing with acrylic in 2005, at 81 years of age, after materials were made available to her at the Mornington Island Arts and Crafts Centre, where she worked.10 Without being bound to artistic tradition, Gabori expressed her love and longing for her original homeland of Bentnick Island through expressive brushstrokes, and an abstracted representation of landscape mixed with feeling. Shaw is a collage and video artist who reinterprets the notion of landscape and its relationship to Australian identity in a contemporary context. Shaw has a tendency to work with saturated colours, and motifs of abstraction and psychedelia.'https://www.rmoa.com.au/Learn/Education-and-Learning/Learning-Resources-and-Exhibition-Essays/2022-Learning-Resources-Archive/Forever-Now-Collection-Essays Kellie Williams