Eddie is an artist and arts worker living on unceded Dharug Country.
She has presented work in solo and group exhibitions in a variety of spaces including Arts House, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Grafton Regional Gallery and Firstdraft. She is currently working with digital media and embroidery with an interest in self representation and the politics of image making.
As an arts worker Eddie has worked for the past 15 years across Western Sydney supporting creatives to realise their artistic vision. She is a creative producer at Utp.
Eddie was awarded the Create NSW visual arts fellowship for emerging artist 2021/2022 and is the 2021 Blake prize recipient (emerging).
Born in Lebanon, Eddie studied painting at the Lebanese University and Digital Media at UNSW.
eddieabd@gmail.com
2024 Solo exhibition - The Unbearable Right To See and Be Seen, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 8 Dec - 28 Apr
2023 Visual artist - Illuminate Festival, Picton, Sep
2023. Participating artist - Hands event, Carriageworks Nights, Jul
2023 Artist residency, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, May
2023 Group Show - Okkoota, Arts House, 12 - 23 April
2022 Awarded the Create NSW Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship, N.A.S., 24 Aug - 11 Sep
2022 Solo show - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 16 Jul. - 4 Sep.
2022 Group show - Inland See, Grafton Regional Gallery, 9 Jul - 11 Sep
2022 Brand X - video installation, City of Sydney Creative Studios, 1 Sep - 10 Oct
2022 Participating artist - Blue Mountains Portraits, 22 Jan. - 20 Mar.
2022 Participant, Biennale Delegates Program, Australia Council for the Arts
2021 Awarded the 66th Blake Prize - Emerging Artist Award
2021 52 Actions, Artspace, May 3 - 9
2021 Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2021 Participating artist - Spirit of '21 OPEN MIKE, Cementa Festival, 16 Oct.
2021 Group show -This Changes Everything, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 8 May - 20 Jun.
2021 Participating artist - Blue Mountains Portraits
2020 Solo show - In Their Finery, Firstdraft Gallery
2019 Under The Tree, multimedia collective performance, Arab Theatre Studio
2019 Group show - Everyday Madonna, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
2019 Finalist - Blacktown Art Prize
2019 Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2018 Family Slide Night, Arab Theatre Studio
2018 Finalist - Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2015 Solo show - “What’s the English Equivalent of Aram?”, Peacock Gallery
Collections
Liverpool City Council
University of Western Sydney
Publications
Art Collector, Jan - March 2022, Cool Hunter Predictions (The artists to watch in the year ahead), written by Luke Létourneau
Artist Profile , Issue 66, THE EEL, THE HORSE , AND THE EUCALYPT: A SUITE OF POWERFUL SOLOS TRASNFORM CASULA POWERHOUSE, Review by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris