This must be the most blistering red swathe in Dato' Sharifah Fatimah Zubir's extensive repertoire, with odd geometric shapes and sharp edges. This 1979 Link 2 is poles apart from her 1997 series like The Link: there is no link at all. She had gone RED in her 1978 works, like in Angin Mawar, which won a prize in Salon Malaysia (now in the collection of the National Art Gallery). The overall veneer points to something celebratory, but the hasty, awkward overlaps with skeins of paint at the edges, with the sharp protrusions have a more sobering effect. But there is a sense of anchoring stability in the horizontal bottom phalanx, whatever the red tide portends or leads to. As the first batch of fine-art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university), graduating in 1971, Dato' Sharifah Fatimah Zubir served notice of her huge potential when she won the hugely coveted Major Award in the 1979 Salon Malaysia, though she had clinched the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972, the year she held her first solo in Singapore. In 1981, she won a Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981. Her career path was simply astonishing. Upon graduation from ITM, she achieved her BFA at Reading University, England in 1976, and an MFA at Pratt Institute, New York, in 1978, under the JDR III Fund fellowship. Her international accolade was a 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran, in 2003. In 2006, the Sultan of Kedah conferred a Dato'ship on her.