Does one, especially a girl, wearing a polka-dot dress with really big, big (white) dots make one a clown. The implication is there, from the scene of circus clowns donning all kinds of colourful jumper suits with big polka dots. In the past, the ‘uniform’ of the clown, then known as harlequin is mostly checked, you can find several in Picasso’s works.This nubile girl with long plaited ‘horse-tails’ is anything but clownish, but before the time of ‘selfies’ she has her handy accessory of reassurance that her hair is neat, face cleared of blemishes and her dress having no wardrobe malfunction. Indeed, Woman, Vanity is thy Name. Siund Tan’s paintings are based on childhood memories and dreams, but with the newly represented Present in a surrealistic twist. Siund Tan, real name Tan Hong Shiung, was one of the star winners of the biennial Malaysian Emerging Artists Award, hosted jointly by HOM Art Trans and Galeri Chandan, in 2011. The other winners were Chong Ai Lei, Ng Swee Keat, Muhammad Syahbandi Samat and Sun Kang Jye. In 2011, he was also a finalist in the da Dun Fine Arts exhibition in Taichung, Taiwan. He had his first solo titled SOMETIME at the G13 Gallery in Selangor in 2014. Siund Tan obtained his BFA in Graphic Design at the Curtin University of Technology in Australia in 2004.