1929 Born in lpoh, Malaysia
Education
1940 - 49 Anderson
School, lpoh
1952 - 53 Malayan
Teachers' College, Kirkby Liverpool
1957 - 61 Chelsea
School of Art, London
1957 - 61 NDD - National Diploma in
Design
1957 - 61 Chelsea Diploma for
Painting
1962 Institute of Education, London
University ATD Art Teacher's Diploma
1958 Cautauld Institute's Art
Lectures on Renaissance Art
Awards, Prizes & Grants
1952 Sir Gerald Templar's Award to
Outward Bound Mountain School, Eskdale, UK
1969 Special Prize for Painting,
Salon Malaysia
Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs'
Prize for Painting, Tokyo Biennale
1970 Guest Artist to the Federal
Republic of Germany Guest Artist to U.S.A.
1972 A.M.N. (Ahli Mangku Negara)
Malaysian Government Award for Services to Art
1990 Australian Culture Award
Guest Artist to Paris
1992 Minor Prize, Sculpture
Section, Salon Malaysia PJC (Pingat Jasa Cemerlang, Terengganu)
1994 KMN
1998 Anugerah Kesenian Perak
Selected Exhibitions
1963 - 65 Malaysian
Art Council Exhibitions
1965 Solo Exhibition, British Council,
Kuala Lumpur
Australian Waratah Spring Festival
Group Exhibition
1966 Commonwealth Arts
Festival, UK and Ireland
1967 Malaysian
Travelling Art Exhibition to Hamburg, Rome, St. Etienne, and Paris
Cathay Pacific Travelling Art
Exhibition to Asian Capitals 1969 "SALON MALAYSIA"
National Art Gallery
Young Contemporaries Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
Malaysian Art Exhibition to Sao Paolo Biennale
1972 ISPPA, Osaka, Japan
1978 Indian Triennale
1984 Two Malaysian Potters, British
Council Hall, Kuala Lumpur
1986 Contemporary British Malaysian
Art Exhibition "Side-by-Side", National Art Gallery
1988 1st Asian Art Exhibition,
Taichung, Taiwan
1989 "Clay as an Expressive
Medium", National Art Gallery
1990 Arts Fest Terengganu - 11
Malaysian Artists "Clay, Cloth and Wood" British/Malaysian
Artists' Exbibition, National Art Gellery
"Malaysian Art"
Travelling Art Exhibition to 4 German Cities 1991 /92 SALON
MALAYSIA, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
1992 "ASEAN SELECTIONS",
Singapore
Solo exhibition, "Earthscapes"
- Clayworks, Wan Gallery 1996 Art and Thoughts 1952-1 995,
Retrospective exhibition, National Art Gallery
1997 Solo exhibition,
"Trapped" - Exhibition of the Trapped Series
2000 Trans(formations) - Sculpture
Square