Anthonie Chong has become a byword for figures with an unsettling dark, psychology edge at least in the earlier years of his career. The figure rendered in yellow ochre with busy staccato impastos on the top half, as if to suggest depth and posture nuances, makes for an interesting reading. A unique sense of space and texture is created with thick layers of paint and gestural strokes, capturing the sitter's essence. Anthonie Chong graduated in Graphic Design from the Perak Institute of Art in 1991. He won the Philip Morris Asean Art Award, Malaysia in 1998. In 2000, he switched to caricature-like iconography fusing eastern surrealism with digital technology, namely his e-monk creations which morphed into @-monk in 2010, which was represented in three series - Community, Gaia and Mechanism. He had his first solo at the X Pub and Gallery in Penang in 1974. He had worked as an art teacher (Art Design, Kuala Lumpur), graphic designer, illustrator and lecturer at Art Direction (1992-1995), before helping out a relative in his business.