Description
A magic conjunction of poetry, music and fine art at its most glorious, with the intriguing blend of red, green and blue, the mood at times coquettish, at times teasingly adversarial with the core shapes hinged in the central matrix. Called Dancing Light, it is connected to Dato' Sharifah Fatimah's multi-spectrum Pancawarna series. The adumbrating sidelights of colours with the translucent light simulate movements, rhythms, even dance, and oh, Life! The resonance of the wind, the rustling leaves and the fresh breath of vegetation make this paean to Nature an equivocal epiphany.
Dato' Sharifah Fatimah is not dubbed the First Lady of Modern Malaysian Art for nothing: A pioneer art student (Mara Institute of Technology); Awards such as Salon Malaysia (Major Award, 1979), Young Contemporary Artists (Minor Award, 1981), Malaysian Landscape (Minor Award; and 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial (Iran, 2003). She was conferred the Dato'ship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006 and the Women of Excellence Award Malaysia in 2014. Academically, she got her BFA at Reading University and MFA at the Pratt Institute (New York), under the John D. Rockefeller III fellowship. Her salient series includes Nursiyah (Black Light), Chasm of Light, Mindscape, Joy Is The Theme, Celebration, Pancawarna, Touch The Earth, Garden of the Heart, and Song of the Eucalyptus.