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What chimerical creature is this, a grotesque mutant with a titled board for a head, having swallowed what looks like a shark so large that its head juts out from its behind, one with a tiny pair of horns and a wing? Around it are small creatures like rats and what looks like an opossum besides someone in astronaut garb. If you follow the title and what is written on the ‘face' board, you may be left guessing who's the ‘hidden intruder' alluded. It's like the Malay proverb, Duri Dalam Daging, or literally a ‘thorn in the flesh' or it could be Mr. Hyde within the Dr. Jekyll. Shafiq Nordin is one of the fastest rising young artists since graduating with a BFA at the Universiti ITM, Shah Alam, in 2012 (he did his diploma at the Lendu campus in 2010). He won the Malaysian Emerging Artist Award in 2013 and had the Imperium MEAA solo at the HOM Art Trans in 2016. In 2020, he won the Highly Commended, Established Artist Category at the 2020 UOB Painting of the Year (Malaysia). He was a finalist of Bakat Muda Sezaman (BMS), National Art Gallery Malaysia in 2019. He was represented in Art Expo Malaysia for consecutive years. The year 2015 saw him taking part in art fairs in Sydney and Istanbul under Yavuz Gallery, while the Mizuma Gallery featured him in The Collective Young from Southeast Asia, Gillman Barracks, Singapore. He was represented in Art Stage Singapore and Art Kaohsiung in 2017, as well as Art Busan in South Korea in 2018. His second solo exhibition Aletheia was held in 2018. Recent international art shows include Brain Invasion, Two Man Showcase with Shafiq Nordin, Block 17 Bacolod City, Philippines (2020) and Asia Art Connection with Eugene Gallery, Korea (2019). His group exhibitions include XIX Nineteen (2019), and Bintang 5 Volume III (2018) with Segaris Art Centre. His solo titled It's A Beautiful Life was held at Secret Fresh Gallery, Manilla in 2022.