Aug 13, 2018 | Art, Festivals, Photography
S.C. Shekar, a renowned photojournalist, has his latest exhibition ‘Grit and Grace; The Grandeur of Monochrome Malaysia’ in the George Town Festival this year, and it is undoubtedly worth a visit. Over his 30 year career he has published 25 books, and has worked in...
Aug 7, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions, Festivals, Photography
Dennis Lau’s exhibition ‘Borneo People’ opened this weekend at Black Kettle, on Beach Street, and is well worth visiting before it closes on the 18th of August. The photos span five decades and document the changes to society in Sarawak and Sabah over that period. Lau...
Aug 6, 2018 | Art, Festivals, Photography
Madhvee Deb’s solo exhibition opened as part of George Town Festival this past weekend at the charming and trendy Ome by Spacebar Coffee on Lorong Toh Aka. Featuring 10 large photographs and also sculptures and a video, the intent is to focus the mind on...
Aug 4, 2018 | Art, Dance, Festivals, Music, Sculpture, Workshops
WHIST is described as an hour long ‘experience’ that combines Virtual Reality (VR), physical theatre, sculpture and music used to explore multiple perspectives of one family’s story. It has received glowing reviews from The Guardian (UK), Vice and Creative review. All...
Jul 30, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions, Photography
The success of Karyn Leong’s mission to empower women through her photography was immediately obvious at the opening of her exhibition ‘Still Beautiful’ at 147 Lorong Kelawai this weekend. Many of the women featured had come to see the pictures and were clearly very...
Jun 18, 2018 | Art, Exhibitions
Artistic portraits of fruit date back 3000 years to Ancient Egypt. Fruits may act as representations of the ephemeral nature of human existence. When portrayed as fresh and ripe, the fruit stands as a symbol of abundance, fertility, youth and vitality, whereas a...
