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Two Girls skipping, Ali Abbas

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from Blacktown Arts ..., 29.07.08

Ali Abbas

Ali Abbas was born in the city of Al Nasiriah in south of Iraq. He studied at the Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts (1991). He has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions in Iraq, Lebanon and Cuba. Ali has participated in several group exhibitions in Australia including Thoughts, Feelings and Beliefs (2004) and Songs of Travelling Birds: Iraqi Artists in Exile (2005).

Artist Statement

As soon as the colour of the brush touches the white surface, I feel that the real and the imaginary become alike and the obscure details of everyday life are transformed into colours. An encounter from a folklore story, a symbol, an ornament decorating a window, or a child’s hand that has left its traces on a wall of a back alley – these things trigger everything on the canvas square. In my work there is an awareness of place and its complications, that sense of the past time and that kind of believing in a coming hope. Linking the past and present, colours of popular rugs converge with the Australian landscape in my work to produce a new horizon of fables that are undergoing a perpetual formation.

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