The natural kampung environment lies at the heart of Fauzul Yusri’s oeuvre, with traditional games, open spaces surrounded by lush vegetation, rivers, and domesticated animals. In what he terms "Primitive Pop," it is a game of defragmenting and misrepresenting reality with childlike scrawlings, investing his images with “character” through a kind of subconscious method in chaos. He says: “I first try to deform or disfigure my canvas through color, line, space, or drawing, and then try to solve the mess I created. The solution lies in resolving the rhythm, proportion, forms, and balance.” Titles of his solos are hints enough: ‘Coreng,’ which is Malay for “mottle,” referring to marking with spots and smears of color; and ‘Guris,’ which is about lines—raw, layered, and primitive. Fauzul Yusri graduated from the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) with a degree in Fine Art (Drawing) in 1999. He won the Juror’s Prize in the National Visual Art Gallery’s Young Contemporary Artist Award in 2014. Other awards include the Incentive Award (Shah Alam Art Gallery Open, 2000), and Special Mentions in the UCA 2002 and Bank Negara’s Kijang Award 2014. He has had several solo exhibitions since his first at Elm Quay Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, in 2001, featuring later in Galeriizu and Taksu Galleries in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.