ARTIST's Corner (WORKS) - Shia Yih Yiing

SHIA YIH-YIING, originated from Kuching, Sarawak, was drawn to KL upon winning a scholarship from the Malaysian Institute of Arts. Then after, she subsequently gained a Diploma in Fine Art. Her dedication to be an artist was strengthened through a series of sentimental and symbolic family portraits and won her a fellowship from the Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship in Art & Craft. The journey through Australia initiated a research study in visual art at the School of Contemporary Art, University of Western Sydney. Ever since, her art works is often more metaphorical and playful.

Vessels of Art, What is Your Equipment, 2006 is a work on the artist's stronger sensibility on identity and future as her children grew older. Questions such as "Where are we? What are we?" becomes more vivid. By culling icons from Chinese and Popular culture and multiracial identities, blue patterns were conjured up on vessels or vest on bodies that are breakable. The vessels portray the unity in variety or variety in unity of a multiracial society where racial issue is a very sensitive issue. The vests are both poetic resistance and portrayal of hardworking, endurance and migratory nature of others under the Malay elite hegemony. The blue Chinas conveyed sentiments in the process of building and securing a peaceful and prosperous position in this part of the world. - Shia Yih Yiing


Vest of Wealth, Vest of Prosperity, Vest of Honour
137cm x 101cm
2006


Win Vesture, Sash of Strengyh
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
137cm X 101cm
2006


Monumental Abundance I & II
Acrylic on Canvas
122cm X 91cm
2006

Anda in Wonderland, 2007: The simplicity in the language of western childhood story, with inventive layering and masking of the truth behind the surface, is a romantic strategy to deconstruct and rewrite a common history. The artist took these ideas and attempted to make them workable for the space and the time we lived in - Shia Yih Yiing


An An in Wonderland, Pool of Tear
Oil on Canvas
137cm X 101cm


An An in Wonderland, Mad Tea Party
Oil on Canvas
137cm X 101cm
2007 2007

If you'd like to find out more about Yih Yiing, do visit Y2s Artspace, a gallery and studio space established by Soh Chee-Khoon and Shia Yih-Yiing that provides a friendly and relaxing venue for people of all ages to explore the world of visual art.


**All images displayed with courtesy of artist**