At Bankstown Central, Abdul Abdullah has become lost. “Far out, this place is bigger than I thought” he texts while gamely trying to locate me, also lost. “I think I was in the basement.”
It’s been three decades since the artist, then nine years old, fell in love with the labyrinthine and luminous shopping centre then known as Bankstown Square. He has since built a successful career across major galleries and public broadcasting, and relocated to Bangkok – and the Square has been demolished and redeveloped. “The best place in the world was the World 4 Kids toy shop, and the koi pond in the old town square,” he says.
