Join us for a special talk in which award-winning artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah discusses his exhibition Undying.
This floor talk Abdul-Rahman Abdullah will guide us through the exhibition Undying, describing his processes and how his intricately carved and painted works tell a story of our complex relationship with life, death and the afterlife, as well as our connection with (and responsibility to) the natural world.
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah (born 1977, Port Kembla, NSW) lives on a cattle farm on Bindjareb Nyoongar Country, Western Australia. Shaped by formative experiences as a "Muslim kid with mixed heritage", on his father's side he is a seventh-generation Australian descended from convict arrival in 1815, and on his mother's side, from Bugis and Minangkabau royalty in Malaysia. Abdullah's earliest influences growing up in inner-city Perth included comic books, fantasy novels, skateboarding, hip hop, a haunted family home, Sufism, boxing, and grunge, and "living a very grass-roots existence as a lo-fi creative kid in the 1980s and 1990s."
