ELSIE GABORI | 'Dibirdibi Country' | Painting / Synthetic Polymer on CanvasElsie Gabori; 'Dibirdibi Country', 2014 synthetic polymer on canvas 910 x 610mm Cat No. 8505 14

Our grandfathers

Butchulla and Gurang Gurang clans

To carry vegetables from the garden

who learnt the art of weaving and making feather flowers from her mother and grandmothers

Vinyl-cut on Hahnemühle paper

Ngaziw dhangalaw ulakal

Five colour linocut reduction

This is a very profound statement as it is a demarcation between their past history and modern history

She lives at the Jumbun Community at Murray Upper

the story of the turtle

Senub kedha kaymel za matha inub lagalgaw kulba danalgaw pawanu muynu

"Thupmul means thorny stingray