Category Archives: Australia

Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 8 – Moroccan Birdhouses


Moroccan birdhouses by Fatima Killeen                                                                                            On permanent display in the Australian Journeys exhibition                                              National Museum of Australia               Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each day during Ramadan 2012  Click on the image … Continue reading

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Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 7 – El Kanghar “Uluru at Dusk”


Fatima Killeen                                                                                                                                         El Kanghar “Uluru at dusk”  2000                                                                                             Colour collograph                                                                                                                            28cm x 41cm Image shape reads in Arabic – Kangaroo                                                                                        East of Somewhere exhibition held at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each … Continue reading

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Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 6 – The Breeze


Fatima Killeen                                                                                                                                         The Breeze  2000                                                                                                                                     Colour collograph                                                                                                                                                                      28cm x 41cm Reproduced by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission for the cover          of the ‘Ismaa’ report, a national consultation on eliminating prejudice against               Arab and Muslim Australians Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each day … Continue reading

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Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 4 – Resilience


Fatima Killeen Resilience 2005                                                                                                                                        Colour collograph                                                                                                                                       47cm x 62cm Before 1948 there were 475 Arab villages within the borders of what was to become the state of Israel – 385 of those villages have been destroyed by the Israeli authorities.         No records were … Continue reading

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Thirty Daily Greetings – Day 2 – How much blood for oil?


How much blood for oil? 2007                                                                                                  Colour Collograph                                                                                                                              29cm x 42cm Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each day during Ramadan 2012  Click on the image to make it larger or click on 30 daily greetings in the … Continue reading

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Thirty daily greetings – Day 1 – Legal, illegal, seeking peace


Legal, illegal, seeking peace 2003                                                                                             Acrylic, sand, stencils, leaves on wood                                                                                        50cm x 70cm   ….A search for a place to live and hope in peace. Thirty daily greetings will display a different image each day during Ramadan 2012   Click on the image to … Continue reading

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Latest research – living and working as an artist in Australia


The ability of artists to survive in Australia has been the subject of the Throsby Report and a census study commissioned by the Australia Council. Writing on the ArtsHub website, Paul Isbel has penned an article called  “The lowdown on living as an artist in Australia”  … Continue reading

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The LOOK and MIRROR exhibitions of Australian picturebook art


I have just returned from the fantastic LOOK! and Mirror exhibitions                at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. The exhibitions showing the original                        “art of Australian picture books” are displayed in two separate spaces; one is the collaged illustrations of Jeannie Baker from her Moroccan/Australian … Continue reading

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