The Aboriginal artist Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (1924–2015) was born on Bentinck Island, a small island in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. Home to the Kaiadilt people, the isolated island was largely ignored by European settlers for hundreds of years. But in the 1940s a group of Presbyterian missionaries forcibly relocated Bentinck’s population, including Gabori and her family, to nearby Mornington Island. After 60 years of exile there, Gabori returned to Kaiadilt country at the age of 80, ready to paint. In her abstract and brilliantly colored canvases, beloved places on Bentinck Island take shape. For instance, from a slurry of Gabori’s confident brush strokes, Nyinyilki’s large freshwater lagoon materializes in black, white, light blue, and magenta. Fondation Cartier celebrates the short yet explosive career of Sally Gabori, one of Australia’s most important contemporary artists. —Nyla Gilstrap