SEERS exhibition collection

SUPERSTAR
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MY WILT
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THE UNICORN
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MERAH
size: 20"x30"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1700



THE ANGEL
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THE PIANIST
size: 20"x30" / framed size: 22"x32"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1100
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THE RACKET
size: 20"x30" / framed size: 22"x32"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1100
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SOUL
size: 20"x30" / framed size: 22"x32"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1100
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THE DANCERS
size: 38"x26" / framed size: 40"x28"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
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THE WORRIER
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SECRETS
size: 18"x18"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM800



SI COMOT
size: 24"x18"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1500



SUN SET
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TANJUNG PUTERI
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material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM750



THE LOVERS
size: 30"x20"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
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MY HEAD OR MY HEART
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medium: acrylic
price: RM1000



OYSTER & BUTTERFLY
size: 22"x16"
material: paper
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price: RM2000



PERTEMUAN
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BODY, HEART, SOUL
size: 10"x15"
material: paper
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RAHMAN
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IN HIS ARMS
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KARMA
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MILA
size: 14"x14"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1000



MOONRIVER... YOU & ME
size: 36"x36"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM3000



EMOTIONS OF BATIK
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medium: acrylic
price: RM2300



FISHES OF MEN
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GAJAH
size: 14"x18"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM900



YUSOF
size: 14"x18"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM900



HEAVEN & EARTH
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medium: acrylic
price: RM890



OUT OF THE BOX
size: 15.5"X16.5"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM800



BEYOND
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BIRDS OF PARADISE
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IMPIAN
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medium: acrylic
price: RM980



THE CREATION OF THOUGHTS
size: 24"x60"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM3000



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ABU
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HOUSE
size: 30"x30"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1300



ESSENCE
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medium: acrylic
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FLOWERS
size: 18"x24"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM800



BED OF ROSES
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YANG INGIN
size: 14"x24"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1100



KASIH KU
size: 14"x24"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1100



MOTHERS
size: 22"X16"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM5000



MY PRESENT
size: 22"x16"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM2000



THIRD EYE
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WORSHIP
size: 24"x36"
material: canvas
medium: acrylic
price: RM1300

Colour Me BEAUTIFUL

An article published in the NEW STRAITS TIMES, 27 August 2007
by Loke Poh Lin

COLOURFUL CHARACTER: Ungku Farrah with Birds of Paradise.

Loke Poh Lin meets the self-taught artist behind Seers, an exhibition that portrays the many things that have coloured the life of this disarming talent.

Ungku Farrah Rahman cannot resist colours. She not only dabs colours on paper and canvas, she also subjects the walls of her home to a healthy dose of pigment resulting in larger-than-life murals. Even her home accessories are not exempted from her passion. We spied a pair of lampbases gaily streaked in her signature hues of gold and green.



MURAL: Nothing is safe from this artist’s passion with colour. Note the painted lampbases on the cabinet top.



Farrah’s passion for colours has taken her on an artistic journey that has been hugely rewarding, emotionally, and professionally. She is now mounting her second solo exhibition, titled Seers.

The eye-catching exhibition brochure states simply. “I am not an artist. This is my passion, to create with colours.” Having said that, Farrah has been drawing and colouring as far as she can remember.

“I love colours and I paint every day. Five years ago, I had my first exhibition at Maybank and that was successful, so I continued painting.” And now she has about 40 pieces ready for art lovers to feast their senses on.

When you meet Farrah, what strikes you is her total candour, the lack of formality or posturing. She’s funny, warm and sharing. What comes through is a thoroughly natural woman. One who just loves to paint. With lots of colours.

A homemaker and mother, she is self-taught and has no pretensions to being what one would label “an artist”. She will be the first to tell you upfront that she has “no intellectual intention.” She paints what she feels.

She’s also extremely personal about her work. One of the reasons Farrah is holding this exhibition close to home and not in a commercial space is because she wants “to meet the people who buy my art. I can’t do that in a gallery”.

She goes on to explain, “When I paint, I am painting my emotions on the canvas and when someone buys my art, they are paying for a piece of my emotional investment.” Hence, a commercial transaction just doesn’t cut it for Farrah.

Most of the new pieces are executed in mixed media — acrylic and oil — on canvas with a few rendered on paper. “When I first started painting, it was on paper. From the process of feeling the paper, from using my fingers to form and colour, I graduated to brush work. You’ll see more of that in my new canvases,” said Farrah.

One other interesting quality about Farrah’s paintings is their size. Or rather the lack of it. “My paintings are personal, call me a storybook artist, if anything,” she chuckles. As such many of her pieces are quite small, about hugging size. Her largest piece for Seers is Birds of Paradise, which is approximately one metre square.

It seems unbecoming to pigeonhole Farrah’s paintings because it would unkind to slot work which is so carefree.

Colour-wise, she seems to be inclined to use lots of greens and blues, with gold accents. There are pieces which are surreal and have dreamlike qualities (Nelayan, The Unicorn, Karma); some are bold with strong, uncompromising colours (Birds of Paradise); and others have lovely floral overtures woven into the work (Essence). Yet others celebrate women and womanhood (Mothers, The Worshiper, The Third Eye). In fact, celebrating the feminine is a thread that features quite prominently in her work. “How can I not? I am a woman and I feel like a woman, and I paint as I feel,” Farrah remarked.

Experience a colourful journey with this talented celebrant of colour and womanhood at Seers, which will be held at the Events Room, Andalucia Pantai Hillpark, Jalan Pantai Dalam, Kuala Lumpur until August 31. For more info, contact Ungku Farrah at 012-2356-774 or ungkufarrahrahman@yahoo.com.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Features/20070826162830/Article

Artist Brings To Life Traces Of Femininity

An article published in THE STAR, 31 August 2007
by Vivienne Pal
photos by Sia Hong Kiau

At A little past 40, Ungku Farrah Ungku Rahman is neither scared nor hiding any more. Her latest solo exhibition, she says, is evidence of her newfound courage.

The self-taught artist has just launched her second solo exhibition – Seers – and is extremely excited about it.

“This is the new me. I am bolder in my works now, no longer afraid,” said the lively and vivacious artist on Friday .

All 40 works – even at a glance – confirms this.

From her first solo exhibition I Exist at the Balai Seni Maybank, Ungku Farrah has come a distance, this time exploring bolder hues like red, blue, green and black, instead of the previous muted colours and mild pastels.

Self-taught artist: Ungku Farrah with some of her works.

“Seers is an exploration of myself and my art,” she proclaimed. “I Exist was more careful; I was always hiding, tentative.”

Check out Merah and House in which the artist uses loud colour and lots of lines, while Birds of Paradise makes a floral statement with colourful intertwined flowers.

Where previously her media was paper, acrylic and watercolours, Ungku Farrah now experiments – albeit rather gingerly – with oil, and even collage for a textural appeal.

My Wilt, for instance, was crafted out of acrylic and oil with collage and beads – a pretty piece of art.

Subject-wise, Ungku Farrah plays with flowers and landscapes, and while she does not constantly make ostensible references to women – especially in light of her more modern approach in Seers – the feminine hints are still strong.

But this is expected of the artist who describes herself as a “painter of womanhood.”

Blue and turquoise make gentle suggestions of femininity, while through the veneer of what’s painted on the surface are discernible hints of a woman’s body – the curve of the hip, eyelash or the flow of long, lush hair.

Such traces are not always visible at a swift glance; the artist takes great pleasure revealing more at a second, deeper look.

“I want my collectors to ‘own’ the piece to be able to make interpretations of the work,” said Ungku Farrah.

Pretty piece: ‘My Wilt’ is crafted out of acrylic and oil with collage and beads.

In her own abstract way, she has captured the female figure quite nicely – a credible feat, given the challenging nature of figurative art.

The artist’s “playing field” has also expanded – the works in this series are larger.

But, bigger does not necessarily mean better, and this writer feels that in expanding the size of the works, the artist has somewhat lost – and only in a few pieces – the intimacy and emotion she has successfully conveyed in some of her earlier series.

Nonetheless, there are some outstanding pieces such as The Angel, Moonriver...You and Me, Essence, Worship and Yang Ingin.

Although new to the art scene, Ungku Farrah has decided to organise and coordinate Seers on her own, instead of holding it in a gallery, but this is her way of “making her works more accessible and affordable to the public.”

Prices range from RM800 to RM3,000.

“I am sharing a part of me and my imagination – it’s personal. Therefore, it’s only natural that I would want to meet my buyers and get to know them better.”

Seers is worth a viewing. There is still a hint of uncertainty in some of the works, and it does seem that the artist is still finding her groove, but that only adds to the allure of the collection because it lends an honesty and sincerity to each work.

Nonetheless, it looks like more is to be expected from the artist, if she keeps up with that endearing aptitude for exploration and discovery.

“I’m not an artist; this is my passion to create with colours. I am encouraged by the support that has been shown to me from my past exhibition, and I will keep on painting.”

Seers is on show until today at the Andalusia Events Room, Pantai Hill Park, KL. For details or viewing, call 012-2356 774 (Farrah).

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2007/8/31/central/18694920&sec=central