"After years of being guarded even as a child, painting helped me escape in the times when I was locked up. I call it a memory." -Noongyar Yamatji artist Angus Adbdullah.
Angus Abdullah is a Ngoongyar Yamatji man who became an artist with the Torch Project while he was in custody at a Victorian prison.
Angus is now on a post release program with Torch and has one of his paintings exhibited in Confined 7, showing at St Kilda Town Hall as part of the Yallukit Willam Ngargee St Kilda Festival.
Angus says the work of Kent Morris and the team at Torch has helped him achieve as an artist and the recent policy changes regarding inmates selling their paintings is a great step forward.
Angus is inspired by his grandparents to paint landscapes. The title of his painting in the exhibition Narla Karla Budja - Land of Big Fire.
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