[image: To be ungovernable (2025) oil on linen 198.1cm x 162.5cm]


Abdul Abdullah is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist. As a self-described ‘outsider amongst outsiders’ with a post 9/11 mindset, his practice is primarily concerned with the experience of the ‘other’. Abdullah’s projects have engaged with different marginalized minority groups and he is particularly interested in the disjuncture between perception/projection of identity and the reality of lived experience. Identifying as a Muslim and having both Malay/Indonesian and convict/settler Australian heritage, Abdullah occupies a precarious space in the political discourse that puts him at odds with popular definitions. He sees himself as an artist working in the peripheries of a peripheral city, in a peripheral country, orbiting a world on the brink. His work has been censored by politicians who have accused him of attacking Australian culture, and once a member of the Christian Democratic party wrote that he wants to “convert young Australians” and that he “worships a moon god”.


For enquiries please contact Ames Yavuz Gallery at info@amesyavuz.com

Instagram: @abdul_abdullah

Current and upcoming projects:

Sydney Contemporary
Ames Yavuz, Carriageworks Sydney
September 11 - 14

The Biennale of Sydney
TBC
March 14 - June 14, 2026