SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1965 | Penang
1986 | Penang
1969 | Bangkok, Thailand
1970 | Bangkok, Thailand
1971 | Australia
1972 | Indonesia
1974 | Geneva, Switzerland
1975 | New York
1976 | New York
1988 | Leeds, Alpine Club, and Chelsea Library, England
1997 | Retrospective exhibition, The Art Gallery, Penang
2006 | Gallery 3, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore

HONOURS

1988 | Invited to London for Lecture demonstration at University of Leeds, Bradford College of Arts, London College of Arts, and St Martin’s School of Arts
2009 | First artist in the world to produce batik art on canvas.

EDUCATION

1971 | Australian National University, Canberra

• A self-taught Batik painter who grew up among artists who practised oil, watercolour, Chinese ink and Batik painting
• After his secondary education at Chung Ling High School he was forced to work as a rubber-tapper to supplement his family’s meagre income
• He became one of the first artists in the world to have a Batik painting accepted for auction by an international auction house such as Christie’s in 1994

AUCTIONS 

1994 March | Christie’s auction of S E Asian Pictures, Singapore
1995 Apr | Christie’s auction of S E Asian Pictures, Singapore
1996 Oct | Christie’s auction of S E Asian Pictures, Singapore
1997 March | Christie’s auction of S E Asian Pictures, Singapore
2015 March | The Edge Auction | Wheel of Forture | Batik, 2009 (68.5cm x86.3cm), RM39,600