Faisal Abdu'Allah
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Faisal Abdu'Allah (born 1969 in London) is a British artist and barber.[1] His work includes photography, screenprint and installations.
Life and work
Abdu'Allah was born Paul Duffus in 1969 and grew up in a Pentecostal family. He was educated at Willesden High School, Harrow School of Art, Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art.[2]
In 1991, Abdu'Allah converted to Islam and changed his name. The event was described in the BBC television documentary series The Day That Changed My Life,[3] and formed the subject of the artist's 1992 work Thalatha Haqq (Three Truths).[4] He taught at the University of East London (UEL),[5] formerly North East London Polytechnic. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University[6] and is a member of the Association of Black Photographers.[7]
In the spring of 2013, Abdu'Allah was an artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute, and in the fall of 2014 he returned to Wisconsin, this time as an assistant professor in the Art Department of the School of Education.[8] He is now an associate professor of art and in 2017, received one of UW–Madison's Romnes Faculty Fellowships.[9]
In his work The Last Supper, eleven men and women sit in Islamic costume around a table, while a figure corresponding to Judas Iscariot stands, concealing a gun behind his back. Silent Witness featured portraits of young black men, with a soundtrack mixing rap, prayer and interviews.[10]
Group exhibitions
- 1993: Borderless Print. Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale. With Saleem Arif, Chris Ofili, Donald Rodney, and Maud Suiter.[11]
- 1994: Us an' Dem. The Storey Institute, Lancaster. With Denzil Forrester, and Tam Joseph.[11]
- 1995: Make Believe. Royal College of Art Galleries and other sites around London. In collaboration with Clive Allen.[11]
- 1995: Revelations. Bonington Galleries, Nottingham. With Clive Allen.[11]
- 1995: The Impossible Science of Being: Dialogues between Anthropology and Photography. The Photographers’ Gallery, London. With Zarina Bhimji, and Dave Lewis.[11]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoop, The Politics of Heritage: Legacies of Race, Routledge, p. 178. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Michael Edmands, Artist who is a cut above, The Guardian, 30 June 2001.
- ↑ Thomas Sutcliffe, Review, The Independent, 24 August 1995.
- ↑ V&A website
- ↑ ,Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Elizabeth M. Hallam and Brian V. Street, Cultural Encounters: representing otherness, Routledge, p. 273. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b c d e Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Pages with script errors
- 1969 births
- Living people
- 20th-century English male artists
- 21st-century English male artists
- Academics of the University of East London
- Alumni of Central Saint Martins
- Alumni of the Royal College of Art
- Artists from London
- Black British artists
- British contemporary artists
- Converts to Islam from Protestantism
- Former Pentecostals
- Barbers
- British hairdressers