Nadiah Abdulrahim

Writer

Nadiah Abdulrahim is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. She graduated with a BFA in Photography from the University of Tasmania before turning her attention to editing and publishing. Her writing has appeared in Meanjin, Vault and Composite Journal. Nadiah is an Editorial Associate at Perimeter Books.

Nadiah Abdulrahim's Articles

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Decade: Celebrating 10 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery

Hugo Michell opened his eponymous gallery in Adelaide at a hazardous time – it was late in 2008, and the GFC was in full effect.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Mike Parr works blindfolded for two new shows

In the new exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery, KINDNESS IS SO GANGSTER, a part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival program, Parr presents his likeness in a new medium: glass.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Josh X Muir

Josh X Muir at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne is the culmination of a year’s work that has seen Muir venture further into the digital realm.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Jasmine Targett: Super Ecology

Throughout her career Jasmine Targett has worked with esteemed researchers and organisations, including NASA, and used their research and technology in her work.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Lisa Garland and Lucia Usmiani

Gallery director Steven Joyce says the contrast between Garland’s black-and-white photographs and Usmiani’s colourful work will present well visually. “They’re showing jointly and will feed off each other,” he says.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Joanna Logue: Acadia

For 20 years, Joanna Logue painted the landscape she knew best – the one right outside her relatively isolated studio in Oberon, inland over the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Ben Howe

Ben Howe’s paintings become less clear as you move closer towards them. “I suppose my work sits within a broader definition of hyperrealism: that it’s a perfect rendition of something that never existed,” he says.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Islamic Museum of Australia showcases Australian Muslim Artists

Australian Muslim Artists showcases the diversity of the contemporary Muslim experience in Australia, and in the current political and media climate, that is something that should be celebrated.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Shireen Taweel: tracing transcendence

Before even entering the exhibition space where Shireen Taweel’s tracing transcendence was held, the adhan – the Islamic call to prayer – could be heard resonating throughout the cavernous building.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping, curated by Joel Stern of Liquid Architecture and Dr James Parker of the Melbourne Law School, tackles some big issues: technology, surveillance, privacy, detention, migration, and more.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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American Portraits by Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus: American Portraits, a National Gallery of Australia (NGA) touring exhibition currently showing at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, features 36 of the photographer’s works created during the last decade of her career, 1961 to 1971.

By Nadiah Abdulrahim

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Candice Breitz: Video storyteller

Born in Johannesburg in 1972, Breitz, who now lives and works in Berlin, is renowned for her anthropological studies of the cult of celebrity, pop culture, the frame of identity, and representation.

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Nadiah Abdulrahim

Writer