Billy Benn Artetyerre 2008. Image: www.gabriellepizzi.com.au
The 30 year-old Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery – a pioneer in selling Indigenous art in Melbourne – will close at the end of this year.
The dynamic Gabrielle herself died 10 years ago and her daughter Samantha, now in her 40s, has kept the fires of Aboriginal art burning through the GFC. Despite being forced out of their original Flinders Lane home almost immediately after taking over. The current Fitzroy gallery building has been sold for other purposes with no possibility that the Gallery’s long-term staff would take over.
