Gayle Maddigan

Born 1957, Mildura, Victoria; lives and works in Mandurang, Victoria. Gayle Maddigan completed her Master of Fine Art at La Trobe University, and has exhibited widely since the late 1980s in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States and in collaboration with Megan Evans, including A Place of Dwelling, 2009, for the Avoca Project. In 1993 Maddigan, a descendant of the Dhudhuroa, Nari Nari Wamba Wamba and Wegaia peoples, won the Heritage Commission Award and the inaugural Botany Aboriginal Art Award for Landscape. In 2005 she received the Works on Paper Award at the 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. In 2008 Maddigan was the recipient of the City of Darebin’s Gumbri: White Dove Award and also won the NGV Acquisitive Prize at the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.