Anisa Abdullah is intrigued by the cacophony of urban life and latent symbols which she pieces together in her patchwork collages, since 2008. Classic and vintage cars and bikes are a fascination with her father, who works in the diplomatic corp, and here the iconising of a Triumph bike, picked at random from a motoring magazine, brings back fond memories, despite the mad daily traffic snarls in the Ampang suburbia. Triumph bikes also have cultural historical weightage, holding sway from 1902, before the advent of the Japanese. Triumph experienced a resurgence with new prototypes in 1984, ironically by incorporating Japanese manufacturing techniques, and heralded a bigger presence when it set up a sub-assembly plant in Chonburi, Thailand, fast becoming the Detroit of South-east Asia, in 2002. Anisa is also informed in her works by her pre-teen exposures to foreign climes, having the distinction of being born in Warsaw, Poland, and lived in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, until her diplomat father sent her back to Malaysia for her education and familiarization with her roots. After her diploma in Fine Art at Ikip College in Kuantan, Pahang (2005-2008), she continued with her Bachelor’s degree, majoring in Painting at the Mara Institute of Techology (2008-2010), where she was fortunate to come under the guidance of Professor Awang Damit Ahmad. She was awarded a NAFA residency programme in Yogyakarta and her first solo, Cebis Cebis, at Galeri Chandan in 2013, was hugely successful. She was featured in the major contemporary women’s art show, The Good Malaysian Woman: Ethnicity, Religion, Politics, at Black Box, MAP Publika in May 2014.