Since 1993, Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir has been incorporating an innovative extension to her abstract repertoire: the knotty tangle, often placed centre and sometimes in fragmented forms, with protrusions in four directions and with multiple colour variations. It presents another vista of her play on the ambiguity of space, the foreground-background contrasts and such. It does not belong to any particular series but is used as and when. This unheralded ‘device’ surprisingly has been used by other Malaysian artists too, but in much more different ways and to different results. Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir is without doubt one of the greatest women artists in Malaysia today, with a body of astonishing unequalled works. She is from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Techbology (now a university) graduating in 1971. She studied for her BFA at the Reading University, England, in 1973-1976, and her MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1976-1978, under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the 1981 Bakat Muda Sezaman. In 1979, she won the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia. In 2007, she was conferred the Dato’ title by the Sultan of Kedah. Her other awards include 3rd Prize 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Painting of the Islamic World in Tehran, Iran, in 2003. Prices of her artworks have been soaring high recently in auction houses locally and abroad.