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Fatimah Chik & Emilia Tan A Master-Student Art Exhibition at the TMS Art Gallery IT IS the insatiable love for batik that has prompted a teacher and her student to hold a unique exhibition of their art entitled Fatimah Chik & Emilia Tan – A Master-Student Art Exhibition. Their relationship began in 2001 when Emilia Tan studied textile and fashion design under Fatimah Chik during her days at the Malaysian Institute of Art (M.I.A.) and from there, the scholar’s love affair with batik began. Fatimah Chik is a well-known Malaysian artist and her art work has been collected by individuals and institutional and corporate art patrons alike. Fatimah is fond of using traditional metal blocks featuring various Southeast Asian motifs on textiles. Fatimah started creating batik while conducting research on South East Asian textiles in 1975. She is now an authority on batik and has been a Piala Seri Endon judge for several years. Emilia Tan is a natural artist whose talent has flourished since she was a

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Student Emilia Tan with teacher Fatimah Chik (seated).

Fatimah’s artwork is included in many prestigious collections. young girl. Moving from the watercolour brush to tjanting, much of her inspiration is derived from Australian Aboriginal Art. Her distinctive style is a mixture of aboriginal art styles with batik techniques. "It’s not what I paint that matters so much as how I create it so that it will belong to me. That's what leads off to my own personal style."

Emilia’s distinctive style is a mixture of aboriginal art and traditional batik techniques.

Organized by Wisma SGM and TMS Art Gallery, the Fatimah Chik & Emilia Tan – A MasterStudent Art Exhibition will be held from the 2nd to the 9th December 2007 at Wisma Kebudayaan SGM, 243 Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100 Kuala Lumpur. Opening hours are from 11am to 6pm. Admission is free. The opening ceremony is at 11am on the 2nd December, and will be officiated by YB Dato’ Wong Kam Hoong, Deputy Minister of Culture, Art & Heritage. For more information, please contact (+603) 2141 2003 (SGM) or (+603) 4142 8154 (TMS ART) or visit www.tmsArt.com.

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