By Charlene Macaulay
A Point Cook artist is riding the crest of a big year of art shows and exhibitions.
Khalid Jamil Khateeb says a painting currently on exhibition at the Islamic Museum of Australia is the icing on the cake, after recently taking part in the Bayside Arts Festival, the Moonee Valley Art Show and Camberwell Art Show.
He’s also had a painting inspired by the area around Werribee South beach previously shortlisted in the Wyndham Art Prize.
Khateeb said he was thrilled to have this latest landscape painting feature in the Australian Muslim Artists exhibition.
“There are only 19 artists across Australia [featured in this exhibition], and I am one of them,” he said.
“That’s a very good feeling.”
Islamic Museum of Australia general manager Ali Fahour said the exhibition represented the diversity of the Australian-Muslim experience through works from new migrants and second and third generation Australians.
Khateeb grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, before moving to Australia in his late 20s.
The digital marketing specialist said he had been painting for much of his life, but still considered his art a hobby.
“I’m not the kind of artist that produces a lot of work,” he said.
“I just paint something when I want to paint.”
The Australian Muslim Artists exhibition is on display until October 15.
