Gail Mabo was born on 1965 and is an Australian visual artist who has had her work exhibited across Australia.
13 Facts About Gail Mabo
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Gail Mabo is the daughter of land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo and educator and activist Bonita Mabo.
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Gail Mabo is of the Piadram language group and clan of Mer, an island of the Torres Strait Islands group, which is part of Queensland, Australia.
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Gail Mabo attended the first school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Townsville, which had been opened by her father.
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Gail Mabo attended Kingscliff TAFE in Sydney from 1998 to 2003, and from 2004 went to the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE in North Queensland, achieving a Certificate IV in Visual Arts in 2005, followed by a Diploma of Visual Arts in 2007.
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Gail Mabo studied dance at the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre in Sydney from 1984 to 1987.
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Gail Mabo's performing credits include Tracey Moffat's short films Nice Coloured Girls and Watch Out, and the 1991 Sydney production of Jimmy Chi's Bran Nue Dae.
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Gail Mabo's work has since been exhibited in institutions across the country in both solo and group exhibitions.
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Gail Mabo is a founding member of the Murris in Ink artist collective, a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in North Queensland.
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In 2014, Gail Mabo was commissioned to create two huge murals at the James Cook University's Singapore campus, using linocut printing.
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Gail Mabo has been experimenting with cast bronze, empowered by her 2021 residency at Urban Art Projects.
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Gail Mabo has worked with schools in New South Wales as a cultural advisor, and is known as a public speaker, often serving as the family's designated spokesperson.
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Gail Mabo's work is held by a number of public and private collections, including:.