Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Art Gallery

Sally GABORI
b.c.1924 Kaiadilt people, Australia
Lives and works on Mornington Island, Australia
Sally Gabori’s paintings are widely acclaimed and admired for their vitality, immediacy and intuitive use of colour. Born
into the Kaiadilt people of Bentinck Island in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria, until her early twenties she had lived an
almost exclusively traditional life, gathering bush foods and fishing with the aid of the complex stone-walled fish-traps. In
1948, following the effects of drought, high tide and the salination of underground freshwater stores, all Bentinck people
were moved to the Methodist Mission on the larger Mornington Island. Gabori has, however, maintained a strong
connection to Kaiadilt country through language, story and physical return whenever possible.
Shaun GLADWELL
b.1972 Australia
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
In recent years Shaun Gladwell has gained a national and international profile for his videos, which feature acts of
physical prowess and endurance. After an injury ended his ambitions to become a professional skateboarder, Gladwell
began to experiment with video, filming street subculture arts such as skateboarding, breakdancing and BMX-bike riding.
Katharina GROSSE
b.1961 Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Katharina Grosse's work embraces many of the traditions of painting while opening it up to new possibilities and
investigating its interaction with other disciplines, including drawing, performance, sculpture and architecture. Having
worked predominantly with a brush in the early phase of her practice, in the late 1990s Grosse began working with a
spray gun. In recent years, her works have brought together a range of painting techniques in an ongoing dialogue
about gesture and paint.
Fiona HALL
b.1953 Australia
Lives and works in Adelaide, Australia
Fiona Hall’s practice includes major public commissions and projects that have embraced a broad range of media, and
have increasingly engaged with themes of ecology, history and the effects of globalisation.
Romuald HAZOUMÈ
b.1962 Benin
Lives and works in Porto-Novo, Benin
Romuald Hazoumè's assemblages are constructed from a range of discarded materials. This 'recycling' refers to
historical inequities in exchange between Africa and Europe — of slaves, of traditional artefacts being sent to Europe
and the Americas over centuries, and of the contemporary phenomenon in which industrialised countries pay African
nations to allow the dumping of their waste. Hazoumè creates a subversive feedback loop within this system by
recycling the waste as sculpture to be exhibited in (primarily) European galleries.