Interviews and profiles featuring Malaysian artists, cultural practitioners, craftspeople, and community figures in their own words.
Ascend the escalator onto the 4th floor of GMBB creative community mall, a vast array of rose oil paintings adorn the long exhibition hall. Taking centre stage is a small artwork which consists of roses in the three primary colours and adequate blank-leaving within a gold leaf frame, entitled “Eternal Love” as written on a card placed at the bottom-right. Renowned local artist Yap Hong...
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As the greenhouse door slides open, orchids of varying hues sway gently in the cool air-conditioned breeze. The founder of Seremban Orkid Nursery in Mambau, Mr Richard Ng, strolls among the neat rows of flowers. “Its leaves uphold righteousness, its flowers bloom unpretentiously.” Drawn in by the refinement of “the gentleman of flowers”, Richard dedicated 27 industrious years to orchids, starting from growing orchids as...
Nested within a sky-blue wooden house in Tampin New Village in Negeri Sembilan, with festive couplets adorning the doors and windows, and a wooden plaque hanging above the entrance, is Koh Leong Handicraft Workshop. Upon entry, most of the hall is taken up by a massive workbench with various tools scattered around. The room on the left holds a rectangular table over ten feet in...
