February 2017PENANG PALETTEImages from the Great Leap Forward exhibition in KL.
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Artists cannot live forever, but their works certainly can.Artists tend to be linked to two detreated myths: that they lead longer lives, and that their stature grows the longer they live. But death comes to all, with 2016 claiming many artists, including two notable Malaysians, Zakaria Awang (1954-January 29), and Penangborn Nirmala Dutt Shanmughalingam (1941-December 5).Zakaria Awang, Lambai II, 1985, Mixed media on plywood, 178cm x 128cm. Collection of UiTM.Zakaria was an art tutor and was in the team that...
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is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.