Abdullah’s work is a rumination on his complicated heritage as a seventh generation Muslim in Western Australia. He taps the anxieties shared by many marginalised groups living in Western societies – especially those of young Muslims – in the face of enduring prejudice, ethnic profiling and volatile projections of otherness in the public culture. These arresting portraits tell “the story of a generation under fire”, challenging misguided stereotypes with imagination, ambiguity and subtlety.