Brothers in Arms was conceived as part of the Sulu Stories series, which was displayed at the first Singapore Biennale in 2006 that address issues about Yee I-Lann’s multi-cultural identities (she was born to a New Zealander mother and Sino-Kadazan father) in relation to the globalised world. The Sulu land and seascapes represent a unified backdrop with legends of dragons and giant pearls that unite the peoples of the archipelago stretching all the way to the Philippines. Historically, the British, Spanish and Dutch colonists challenged local cultures for trade supremacy and religious dominance and its borders remain volatile till this day. Yee I-Lann has earned her way of becoming a successful photo media-based artist exploring social, power, historical and cultural issues by speculating an image with its context. Besides creating art, she is also a production designer for feature films locally and abroad. Her solo exhibitions include Picturing Power and Tabled, a body of work made for Museum Van Loon’s Suspended Histories exhibition in 2013, formed part of two solo exhibitions in 2014 - at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York and Silverlens Gallery at Gilman Barracks, Singapore; Fluid World which travelled to Australia and Taiwan in 2011; Boogeyman (Kuala Lumpur) in 2010; Horizon (Kuala Lumpur) in 2003; BUY by labDNA (Singapore) in 2001 among others. Her digital print with batik on silk work titled Empires of Privateers and Their Glorious Ventures from the Orang Besar series was included in Curators’ Series #7. A Special Arrow Was Shot In The Neck…, at David Roberts Art Foundation, London, curated by Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl. The three “Kain Panjang” batik works from the series travelled to Daegu Photo Biennale 2014: Origins, Memories & Parodies, curated by Alejandro Castellote. Picturing Power, together with YB from the Orang Besar series was included in The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, at ARTER in Istanbul, curated by Iola Lenzi (2015). In 2014, works from Picturing Power were also brought to Art Basel Hong Kong, the Milan Image Fair and Paris Photo by Silverlens Gallery. Her batik works can be viewed at the Love Me in My Batik: Modern Batik Art from Malaysia and Beyond exhibition at Ilham gallery, Kuala Lumpur until June 2016.