Details of Ian Abdulla
About
Ian Abdulla was born in 1947 in Swan Reach, South Australia. His father Jim Abdulla was part Afghan, born in Hawker, South Australia and his mother Jemima was a Ngarrindjeri woman from Raukkan (Point McLeay). He is one of seven brothers and five sisters. He lived with his family at Winkie and later at Cobdogla. Then after 10 years on the Gerard Mission, near Winkie in the South Australian Riverland, Ian went to Adelaide for two years where he worked for Community Welfare as a builders labourer. He then returned to Riverland with the Parks and Wildlife Service. His art career began in 1988 when he attended a silk-screen printing course at the Jerry Mason Senior Memorial Centre at Glossop. He started painting in 1989. Ian paints stories from his life along the River Murray and all the places he has spent time in around Australia. Ian is a finalist in this year's 27th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He has been a finalist in the award 12 times.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Short St Gallery, Broome
2010 - 'The Early Years', Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2010 - William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
2009 - 'Good Hard Life', Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
2009 - 'The Long and the Short of it', Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin
2009 - 'Yarns', AP Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide
2007 - 'New Work', Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2006 - 'Marree Suite, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004 - Riverland Suite, Adelaide Festival Centre, 2004 Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide
2003 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2001 - Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2001 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2001 - River Land & Memory: The Work of Ian Abdulla, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2000 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1999 - Japingka Art Gallery, Perth
1999 - 'Showing Off', installation, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in collaboration with Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1998 - Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1998 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1998 - Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
1998 - Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1998 - Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1997 - Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1996 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1995 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1995 - Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1994 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1993 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1993 - Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
1993 - 'Looking for a head strainer', Fremantle Arts Centre
1992 - Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1991 - Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
1990 - Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
1990 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
FINALIST
22nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
21st National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
The 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
Australian Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1996 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
AWARDS
2003 - SALA Festival, publication prize sponsored by Wakefield Press and supported by Arts SA
2000 - Runner up, The 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996 - Best Painting, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
1996 - Runner up, Australian Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1994 - Community Achievement Award, Barmera Council, South Australia
1991 - South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year
PUBLICATIONS
2003 - Elvis Has Entered the Building, Wakefield Press
1994 - Tucker, Omnibus Books
1993 - As I Grew Older, Omnibus Books
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
South Australia Museum, Adelaide
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery, Alice Springs
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
University of Tasmania, Hobart
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Museum, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
AFL Collection
National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of Sout AUstralia, Adelaide
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Artbank, Syndey
Artworks of Ian Abdulla
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