Faisal Abdu'Allah

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 reverted 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]

References
  1. Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoop, The Politics of Heritage: Legacies of Race, Routledge, p178. ISBN 978-0-415-32210-2
  2. Michael Edmands, Artist who is a cut above, The Guardian, 30 June 2001.
  3. Thomas Sutcliffe, Review, The Independent, 24 August 1995.
  4. V&A website
  5. ,"AVA Staff – Academic Staff".
  6. "Faisal Abdu'Allah: The Art of Dislocation". Stanford University. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  7. Elizabeth M. Hallam and Brian V. Street, Cultural Encounters: representing otherness, Routledge, p.273. ISBN 978-0-415-20279-4
  8. "School of Education welcoming new cohort of faculty members for 2014–15". University of Wisconsin-Madison. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  9. Kassulke, Natasha (16 March 2017). "Abdu'Allah among 11 UW-Madison professors to receive Romnes Faculty Fellowships". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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