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Abdul Abdullah: ‘People made assumptions about who I was and what I stand for because of my name’

The Archibald packing room prize-winning artist on belonging, outrage and feeling ‘too boxing gym for art school’

The Guardian - AU

Archibald Packing Room Prize goes to Abdul Abdullah for Jason Phu portrait, among broader set of bold and deeply personal works

More than 50 years ago, when I was a junior curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of NSW, I had the daunting experience of hanging the annual Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.

The Conversation

'First thing I did was laugh': comical snap gets gong

Abdul Abdullah always wanted to paint his best friend, and once he did, he snapped up a prelude to one of Australia's best-known art prizes.

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Archibald prize 2025: Jason Phu portrait by Abdul Abdullah wins packing room prize

Phu, also a 2025 Archibald finalist, was painted by his good friend Abdullah, who has won category judged by the Art Gallery of New South Wales staff each year

The Guardian - AU

Three things with Abdul Abdullah: ‘I saw a TikTok that said if you’re a grown man who uses a backpack, you’ve made some poor life choices’

In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Perth-born artist shares a painting that takes pride of place in his home – and why he won’t be shamed for toting a bag

The Guardian - AU

Fairy Tales at QAGOMA: how we revived these stories with new myths, new media and new quirks

Fairy Tales, the latest exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), gives off the pleasurable hum of remix culture, artists riffing on a core theme in numerous ways.

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Ramsay art prize 2023: Ida Sophia wins $100,000 for ‘deeply emotive’ video work

The acquisitive award is Australia’s richest art prize for artists under 40, with the finalists exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia until August

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From joyous celebration to the depths of grief: the new orthodoxy of the Archibald prize is there is no orthodoxy

About 50 years ago an unknown artist entered a portrait of the artist Russell Drysdale in the Archibald Prize. They had painted the artist as a craggy head, emerging from the landscape. The gallery trustees, who knew Drysdale well, loved it – but it was never hung. In their collective…

The Conversation

Brothers Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Abdul Abdullah explore Australian Muslim identity and interrogate colonialism in Land Abounds exhibition

Abdul Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah are very different artists who draw inspiration from their shared experience – but when they exhibit together, their work becomes a conversation.

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At Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands new regional gallery, audiences come face-to-face with uneasy contemporary art

Review: Land Abounds, Ngununggula

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From gum trees to cities to sweeping deserts: how 125 years of the Wynne Prize traces Australia's shifting relationship to our landscape

It is fair to say that Richard Wynne, who died in 1895, would not recognise many recent entries in the art prize that he endowed with £1,000 to reward a “landscape painting of Australian scenery”.

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