I am an artist and arts worker living and working on the unceded lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples.
I use the pronouns she/her and was born in Lebanon.
I use digital media and embroidery with a focus on self representation as a tool to engage with the politics of image making and consumption.
I was awarded the Create NSW visual arts fellowship for emerging artist 2021/2022 and in 2021 I was awarded the Blake prize (emerging artist).
I work as a creative producer at Utp and have worked at SBS radio as a broadcast journalist.
Instagram: @eddie.abd
Email: eddieabd@gmail.com
Exhibitions + Awards + Opportunities
2024 Solo show, Unbearable Right to See and Be Seen, 8 Dec – 28 Apr 2024 , Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
2023 Illuminate Festival – participating artist, September Friday 15, Saturday 16, Sunday 17
2023 Hands, curated event by Hannah Donnelly, Carriageworks, participating artist, 20 Jul
2023 Artist residency at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, May
2023 Group Show – Okkoota, Arts House, 12 – 23 April
2023 2023 Artist in residence at Clothing Store, Carriageworks
2022 Awarded the Create NSW Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship, exhibition was held at National Art School, 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 in the front window of City of Sydney Creative Studios, 1 Sep – 10 Oct
2022 Group show – 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 (Instagram page), Artspace, May 3 – 9, Link to page
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 Group show – Blue Mountains Portraits
2020 Solo show – In Their Finery, Firstdraft Gallery
2019 Group show – 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 Group show – 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