Title
Pelicans at Katarapko
(1994)
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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South Australia
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Ngarrindjeri, Southern Riverine region
- Date
- (1994)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 121.8 x 151.5 x 4.0 cm stretcher
- Signature & date
Signed l.r.corner, white synthetic polymer paint "IAN. W. ABDULLA". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Nelson 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 16.2015
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ian W Abdulla/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Ian Abdulla
Works in the collection
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About
lan Abdulla's paintings vividly recall his childhood memories of the peripatetic life of the Ngarrindjeri people of the Riverland region in rural South Australia. His experiences are shared by many Aboriginal people dispossessed of their land and marginalised into a life of seasonal work and scavenging. Abdulla's richly detailed paintings offer a sense of community despite the hardships of working for a subsistence livelihood on the fringes of a wealthy white farming community. The rapid degradation of the natural resources of the region, and encroaching westernisation of Nunga communities are also as subtly constant as the ubiquitous Murray River.
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Places
Where the work was made
South Australia
