Abdul Abdullah Australia, 1986-.
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About Abdul Abdullah
Abdul Abdullah is a 7th-generation Australian artist of Malay Muslim descent born in Perth in 1986. His older brother, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, is also an artist. The aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks had a great impact on Abdul Abdullah's childhood and has informed his art practice. He creates deliberately provocative works that encourage critical thinking, exploring themes of identity, displacement, and alienation. In 2011 Abdullah won the Blake Prize for Human Justice, for his photographic self-portrait entitled "Them and Us" of himself and his brother, for which he especially got a tattoo of the Southern Cross placed around an Islamic crescent moon and star. Abdullah was a finalist in the 2016 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. As of 2020 his work had been shortlisted five times for the Archibald: in 2011 for a portrait of academic and media personality Waleed Aly; in 2013 for his portrait of boxer Anthony Mundine; in 2014, of Aboriginal artist and activist Richard Bell; in 2016 for Craig Campbell; and in 2020, for his "Untitled self-portrait". He has been finalist for the Sulman Prize five times. In 2019 he won the inaugural Australian Muslim Artists Art Prize, and in the same year was shortlisted along with his brother Abdul-Rahman Abdullah to represent Australia in the 2019 Venice Biennale. In 2022, an exhibition called Land Abounds, featuring the work of both Abdullah brothers and video work by Tracey Moffatt, ran at the NSW Southern Highlands gallery of Ngununggula.
In our database, 11 works by Abdul Abdullah are listed as being offered for sale, the earliest in 2017, of which 6 (55%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $13,500 for The Cost sold by Shapiro Auctioneers in May 2022. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2022. Works by Abdul Abdullah are held by the Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia and a further four major public national galleries (see list below).
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Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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