Career
Gabrielle Pizzi created Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1987 in Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
Gabrielle Pizzi always worked with art advisers from community art centres, ensuring that artists were paid correctly and new artists supported. Unlike some dealers who later exploited the boom in Aboriginal art, Pizzi was known as a woman with great integrity who treated the artists with enormous respect.
Gabrielle Pizzi was a pioneer in the Aboriginal art world and made it her life's mission to have Aboriginal art accepted as powerful contemporary art, and since 1990, regularly curated exhibitions of Australian Aboriginal art internationally. Australian Art Collector states that “Pizzi stands alone among commercial dealers in her longstanding efforts to take Aboriginal art to the world.” and describe her as being “… instrumental in securing its international profile…”.(Issue 17, July - September 2001, Hutuck, M. 2001)
Gabrielle Pizzi brought the dynamic works of artists such as Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri and Emily Kam Kngwarreye to world audiences, organising exhibitions from Venice to Bangalore, Moscow to Madrid, Kiev to Jerusalem. Her international exhibitions also introduced artists such as Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Narputta Nangala and Emily Kngwarreye, as well as artists from Maningrida, John Mawurndjul, James Iyuna and Jimmy An.gunguna.
In addition to her career as an art dealer, Pizzi was an activist for animal rights and Palestinian rights in Israel.
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