Estonia and it's the biggest love letter to Malaysian culture From 12 June until 12 August, the Batik-Manik Art Exhibition is open at the Õpik Conference Centre in Ülemiste. Malaysian-born artist ...

Batik: Breathing New Life into Malaysian Dyeing Art Decked in batik blouses and sarongs, four teenage girls stride down a fashion show catwalk, seemingly straight out of a village in this ...

From heritage textiles to cultural traditions, Nini Marini Ramlan explains why keeping the arts alive matters more than ever.

Award-winning comic book artist and illustrator Arif Rafhan Othman, also known as Superdoofus, is set to take his artwork to the big screen with an upcoming digital art production.. The new ...

Amran stumbled into the colourful world of batik art when he was 18 years old, after attending his first batik workshop in 1997, organised by PERDA (Lembaga Kemajuan Wilayah Pulau Pinang). It was ...

Batik, that wretched medium that plagued many of our school years, has actually been quite a pivotal one in Malaysian art. Linked closely with our region’s arts ...

This exhibition at ILHAM Gallery explores two connected stories of the batik: ... Modern Batik Art from Malaysia and Beyond. Art; Recommended. Wednesday 9 March 2016. Share. Copy Link.

Yet, the practice of traditional batik-making itself can be said to be fading out of existence. For one, there aren’t as many batik crafters in Malaysia as there used to be because of how ...

Language knows no bounds – and neither does art. For 55-year-old Lim Anuar, a Malaysian artist born deaf, these truths come together in his work. Once struggling to make ends meet during the ...

Love Me in My Batik is only the gallery's second exhibition after it opened last August, and showcases modern batik art from the 1960s and beyond. Pioneered by Penang artist Chuah Thean Teng in the ...

Taking the opportunity to experience Malaysian culture, GENBLUE participated in their first traditional batik painting workshop. Using melted wax on their pens to outline the patterns before colouring ...