You must have been gobsmacked when you stumbled upon Suhaidi Razi’s huge horse-carriage made up entirely of found steel objects in his grandest exhibition, Imagine The Imagination, organised by the NN Gallery, at the White Box Publika, Kuala Lumpur, in 2013. This horse work using construction detritus like steel plates (cut) and iron rods, with elongated thin limbs reminiscent somewhat of Salvador Dali’s Temptation of St Anthony, is a regal pose of grace and elegance.
Suhaidi received his Master’s in Fine Art Technology at the University Mara Institute of Technology in 2003-2005, and BA in 1995-99.
He won the Grand Prize in the Traditional Malay Design competition in Malacca (2006), Historical Painting at Galeri Seni Johor (2008) and Historical Event in Terengganu. His Major Award accolades were in Nokia Arat Award (2002), Johor Historical Building (2004), Terengganu Museum Craft Design (2007) and the Pahang art competition in 2003 (Minor in 2001), while his Minor Awards were too many to mention. Since his first solo at the Rainforest in Sarawak in 1997, his recent Imagine The Imagination at White Box Publika organised by NN Gallery in 2013 was perhaps the grandest.