Gabrielle Pizzi
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Gabrielle Pizzi (1941 [?]- December 5, 2004) was an Australian art dealer who promoted Aboriginal art from the Western Desert from the early 1980s. She died of cancer after eighteen months' illness.
Pizzi was born in Sydney and she moved to Hobart when she was five years old. She moved to Melbourne as a teenager. She created Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1987 in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and soon became known as a pioneer for Aboriginal art who treated the artists with integrity and respect. She held many one-man shows and group shows in her gallery, and sold works which often collected high prices.
She had one daughter, Samantha, and in her life outside art, she was an activist for animal rights and Palestinian rights in Israel.
