Dark Voices represents a dichotomy of situations, the top half given to shadows of ordinary-looking faces or celebrities’ figures in a deep dark pall framed in an oblong portrait scale, representing plotters or conspirators perhaps. The bottom section shows a whirligig of people jostling or close together within a circle, in an coalescence with an inner white periphery. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein had spent 10 years in Britain and the United States, returning in September 1969. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1986, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery. He studied briefly at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1956 but did not complete. He graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in 1959-1963, and the Royal Academy in London in 1963-1966. In 1977, he was featured in the eventful tripartite exhibition with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. His major awards include the Anugerah Tokoh Terbilang (2007), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), the Monte Carlo 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1984), the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993). He set up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 and celebrated it with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.