Raja Shahriman’s contemporary sculptures are influenced by issues pertaining to Malay culture. The work is a distinctive example of the artist’s exploration of the symbolic representation of warriors. His sculptures have a commanding presence, constructed by a highly technical and laborious process of cutting, forging and shaping iron pieces, followed by the meticulous attachment, and soldering of the individual forms, resulting in a mesmerising representation of the noble, courageous, and attentive spirit of warriors. Raja Shahriman’s works cover the spectrum of Nature, Religion and Culture, and are all rooted in Malayness, first captured the imagination with his Killing Tools (1994) in the Killing Tools, Lalang and Warbox exhibition. He used metal scraps for linear anatomical constructs. He had his first solo, Gerak Tempur, in 1996. He enrolled as a painting major at the Mara Institute of Technology but switched to Sculpture in the fifth semester, graduating in 1990. In 1994, after three years of teaching at the Malaysian Institute of Art, he returned to his hometown Kuala Kangsar. Api, Bayangan & Kemenyan, his second solo exhibition was held at Pelita Hati Gallery of Art, Kuala Lumpur in 1998. His solo exhibition Rhythm of the 21st Century – Monologues of Raja Shahriman was held at Galeri Petronas in 2009. His latest solo exhibition Lok was held at National Art Gallery Malaysia, just before the pandemic.