Sharon Chin : Ingin Jadi Pelukis Drawings of 2013 - 2018


The title of the exhibition borrows from A Samad Ismail’s (1924 - 2008) short story collection ‘Ingin Jadi Pujangga’ (Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1994).

For many years, I was an artist who didn’t draw, or believed she couldn’t draw, which amounts to the same thing. In 2011, I moved from KL to Port Dickson. When I told the locals I was an artist, they always asked the same thing: can you draw me? So I told myself: I better learn! I was lucky to discover the work of Lynda Barry, an American cartoonist whose books ‘What It Is’ and ‘Picture This’ opened a doorway for me into drawing. She taught me that there are many ways to create an image, most of which don’t require technical skill, or ‘talent’, but enthusiasm, desire and the willingness to try.  

The drawings in this show include illustration, activist work, and graphic journalism. There are also drawings for artworks I wanted to make, or had already made. They represent the thrill and challenge I find in drawing, as well as the joy of becoming an artist who fulfills the vision of what her local community thinks an artist is, and should be. 

Artwork


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Taming' by Vika Osadtchenko
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'Who Cast the First Stone' by Li Yongping
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400

Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Fish Who Wrote Novels' by Hung Hung
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400 | Sold


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Sao' by Bich Ngan
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Rightful Inheritors' of the Earth by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400

Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Guard Dog' by Tagbumgyal
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,700

Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'Here Comes the Sun' by Yeo Wei Wei
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Pigeons and the Old Man' by Vieng-Vachira Buason
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400 | Sold


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Stag' by Muruthan Mungan
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400

Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Fox Spirit' by Huabu
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018 
RM 1,400 | Sold


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'Caterpillars' by Xu Yigua
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018 
RM 1,400 | Sold


Illustration for Editions Jentayu: 'The Dogs of Dolphin Lane' by Wasi Ahmed
Oil pastel on paper
21.2 x 29.9 cm
2018
RM 1,400

Asian Women’s Performance
Ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2014
RM 1,100

 Lock-picker
Ink on paper
21 x 27.8 cm
2014
RM 1,100

Malaysia Medusa
Ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2013
RM 1,100

Illustration for 'SENSORS' artwork
Ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2013
RM 1,100

Illustration for 'Scream, Honey' performance
Ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2013
RM 1,100

Illustration for 'Hell Money' by Zedeck Siew
Ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2014
RM 1,100

Lalang I
Fabric collage on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2015 
 RM 1,000 | Sold
Lalang II
Fabric collage on paper
21 x 29.7 cm
2015
 RM 1,000 | Sold


Rumah Encik Azizi, Kg. Mantin Dalam, Negeri Sembilan
Ink & Chinese watercolor on paper
27 x 39 cm
2014
RM 2,000

Alvivi
Ink on paper
27 x 39 cm
2013
RM 2,000

Weeds In A Box
10 rubber stamps in painted wooden box (Edition 1 of 5)
30 x 40 x 9 cm
2013
RM 3,200 | Sold


Self-portrait in 5 parts
Ink on paper
14 x 21 cm each (5pcs)
2015
RM 1,700 | Sold


Illustrations for 'Whalebone, Crabshell' by Zedeck Siew (Triptych)
Watercolor on paper
20.7 x 27.8 cm each (3pcs)
2015
RM 4,000


Pedang & Bunga/Flower & Sword
Ink & watercolor on paper
13.6 x 20.3 cm (16pcs)
2016
RM 4,000  | Sold


Drawings for Mandi Bunga Zine
Ink on paper
27 x 39 cm (5pcs)
2013
RM 7,000 | Sold

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