Ian Abdulla b. 1947

  • Artist (Painter)
Ian Abdulla is a contemporary Indigenous artist who was born at Swan Reach in South Australia.
exhibited at
Same River Twice
Date
5 December 2014 - 7 February 2015
Place
Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Lion Arts Centre, North Tce [West End] Adelaide South Australia, Australia
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://aeaf.org.au/exhibitions/sr2.html
Making Tracks: A Glimpse at Two Decades of Aboriginal Art in South Australia
Date
19 October 2009 - 4 December 2009
Place
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.tandanya.com.au/nd49/making-tracks-a-glimpse-at-two-decades-of-aboriginal-art-in-sa/
exhibited at
River, land and memory: the work of Ian Adulla
Date
2002
Place
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
Description

Funded by the Australia Council; Arts SA; Adelaide Festival. These works can be compared to a detailed oral testimony of a life lived with a stretch of river. Taken as history, his images provide a vivid account of social and environmental change along the Murray in the post-war period etc.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
FUAM exhibition archive; partial catalogue photocopy.

Exhibition Catalogue:
River, Land and Memory: The work of Ian Abdulla. Adelaide: Flinders University, 2002
ISBN 0725811005

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting
Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Indigenous Art
Date
2000
Place
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Murrundi: three River Murray stories
Date
1993
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Woven rush baskets on simulated green riverbeds, vessel structures, sculptural forms and their implied history. Pointing to the early colonial engravings which represent aboriginal women making or holding or using similar artefacts that are not circulated or known.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002;
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/

Exhibition Catalogue:
Murrundi: three River Murray stories. Parkside, SA: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, [1993]
1 sheet ; ill;, ports. ; 30×84 cm. folded to 30×21 cm.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Installation