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| "Naqshbandi Greenacre engagement" (2010) by Khaled Sabsabi |
AUSTRALIA - The 60th
Blake Prize for Religious Art has been awarded to western Sydney artist Khaled Sabsabi. He won the $20,000 prize for his video installation which shows a ceremonial Sufi gathering in a western Sydney scout hall. The prize is one of Australia's most sought after awards, with more than 1,100 entries received this year. The winner of the $5,000 Human Justice Award, Abdul Abdullah, says his work Them And Us, showing a tattoo of the Southern Cross and Islamic crescent moon, represents his mixed heritage. "It's sort of an affront to both traditions in that there's a Southern Cross which I've started to see as sort of a more nationalist marker in the way that it's used like in the Cronulla riots and things like that," he said. "Then there's having the tattoo itself [which] is an affront to the Islamic tradition. "It's an idea of - I don't want to say sticking it to them - but it's being a different person and a new person and not being aligned to any of the traditions." [
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