Omar Musa Sydney album launch / pop up exhibition
Event description
OMAR MUSA album launch / pop up exhibition at The Lord Gladstone on Saturday 11 May, 2024.
Omar will be launching "The Fullness", his new full length album of poetry and music, created in joy and polished with grief. "The Fullness" is a lyrical and expansive album, where Omar poetically explores themes such as environmental destruction, addiction, grief, grappling with identity in a post-9/11 world and ultimately, rejuvenation. He will be playing the album in full against a backdrop of his original woodcut prints and cyanotypes, made in Brooklyn and Borneo.
Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian rapper, poet, visual artist and author from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova), four hip-hop records, and received a standing ovation at TEDx Sydney at the Sydney Opera House. His debut novel “Here Come the Dogs” was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award and Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. His one-man play, “Since Ali Died”, won Best Cabaret Show at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2018. He has had several solo exhibitions of his woodcut prints. He lives between Brooklyn and Borneo.