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There's a tropical oriental touch about the room in Rafiee Ghani's West Coast peregrinations in the United States during the late 1990s, particularly in California and Oregon. Wherever the bohemian traveller-artist goes, it's nice to have certain personal utensils around like a trestle and a tea-cup, to give him a sense of ‘home', though what looks like crayons are scattered all over the gaudy red polka-dotted black carpet. A dark veneer pervades in a black backdrop, maybe the lighting is subdued. The infused Intimism provides an exotic aura. The items displayed reveal somewhat the artist's activity around the room like a diary, like the low-rack bookshelf with books he might have picked up during his travels. Rafiee Ghani draws great inspiration from his frequent travels around the world, especially to less hospitable terrain in Central, Western and Southeast Asia, apart from Europe and the United States. He was educated at the De Vrije Academic, Voor Beeldende Kunst, The Hague (1980) before returning to retake his Diploma at the Mara Institute of Technology, 1985 (majoring in Printmaking). He followed up with a MA (Fine Prints) at the Manchester Polytechnic, England, in 1987. His major awards are the Minor Award in the Salon Malaysia (1991), twice in the Young Contemporary Artists competition (1984 and 1985), and one of the Juror's Award in the Malaysian chapter of the Philip Morris Asean Art Award in 1994. He also won 2nd Prize in the Malaysian Art Open in 1994. He had taught at his alma mater, ITM, and in the Seychelles, from 1991-1993. In January 2022, he held a solo exhibition, Overland, jointly organised by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers, at Galeri Prima, Kuala Lumpur.