Ian Abdulla, born 1947, PUNCHING BAG FULL OF SAND

synthetic polymer paint on paper
signed 'Ian.W.Abdulla' and dated '2001' (lower right)
56 BY 76CM

Provenance:
Painted in Barmera, South Australia in 2001
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Corporate collection

Exhibited:
Ian Abdulla, Greenaway Art Gallery, 21 November-18 December 2001, cat.no.16

Literature:
Stephen Fox and Janet Maughan, Ian W Abdulla, Elvis has entered the building, Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2003, p.78 (illus.)

This painting is sold with accompanying documentation that reads in part: 'Ian Abdulla's depiction of this scene of teenage boredom verges on the surreal. The red building is his family home, but Ian has been banished to the back shed, where he punches a bag full of sand hung from the roof. The opressive grey interior of the shed, devoid of other details, effectively suggests the psychological pressures he remembers feeling as a youth.'