CORE contemporary art

Through the years of making, she has demonstrated innate expertise in manipulating and composing waste objects that took off into a series of recreating famous works that have been exhibited extensively within the Southeast Asia region. Tijan strives for the visual aesthetic that comes with a satisfying expectation and experience, as her works also caused viewers to question the objects and their attachment in this progressive era. Like an anthropologist, she aspires to trace the remnants left behind by humans’ uncontrollable technology usage, indicative of the notion that permanence and impermanence have to co-exist, even in discarded objects.

Izzat Hamdan (b. 1994, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is young emerging artist known for his stitching techniques of different textiles including raw canvas, burlap, discarded and recycled fabrics collected throughout his years of keeping personal belongings. Graduated with a Bachelor in Degree (Hons) in Fine Art has marked him as one of the most awaited contemporary artist amongst his peers, with an overseas degree internship to Saung Banon Arts Yogyakarta, Indonesia to credit his expansion on artistic career. As a fine artist he has concentrated on exhibiting in numerous exhibitions locally and internationally. With an advantageous side career of working as a textile industry operative, Izzat Hamdan has been pursuing different forms of mechanisms on pattern making as he applied an innate understanding of types and ways of stitching, consequently resulted in an incredibly intuitive process-making. His paintings currently focused on identifying the combined used of oil paint and fabrics, exploring its textural visage and depth achieved by thoughtful composition of multiple subjects. 

Syahmi Jamaluddin born in Batu Pahat, Johor, in 1993, graduated from UiTM in 2016 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art, majoring in Painting. As a young artist in the Malaysian contemporary art ecology, he has been garnering attention even before graduating, having exhibited at several group shows and winning awards including the grand award, Galeri Petronas director’s award, Energy Future, Past and Present competition, Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2015) and Potential Breakout Artist, Energy Future, Past and Present competition, Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2015). The experimental energy that drove Syahmi forward amongst his peers is the same energy that has driven him to expand his painting practice through the use of silkscreen printing, resulting in the current body of his exemplary artworks since.