UTARA –Still Zealous After All These Years
By Ooi Kok Chuen
August 2011 PENANG PALETTE
The Utara group ranks in local art folklore as one of the most enigmatic. After holding steady and highly appreciated exhibitions from 1977 to 1989, the group was out of the limelight for 22 years. But now, they are back for one last show.IT HAS NO MANIFESTO, no annual subscriptions (initially RM400 fee with 15% from the proceeds of sales of works going to the group), no fixed meeting place or fixed schedule, and no specific rules on admission although...
Ooi Kok Chuen
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.
