Abdul Abdullah

How you would describe what you do?

I see my role as an artist in a similar way to a journalist, where I am communicating an idea, but without being burdened with any objectivity. I can be as reactive and responsive and emotional as I like. I work primarily with painting, but I work with pretty much anything I can put my hands on.

What things make you want to be reactive, responsive and emotional?

One of the main things that I want to do is encourage my audience to afford the specificity and complexity to others that they afford themselves. And if they can do that then we are on to living together in a better way. I am looking specifically at the experience