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Shafiq Nordin's compositions are sourced from a myriad of influences including street art, comic culture, and graffiti. Utilising multiple symbols with a highly vibrant colour palette, Shafiq's stylised animals were used to convey modern issues. The Black Goat Who Defended His Master depicts a winged hybridized goat with striped horns, around it is a variety of animals such as the vulture and chimpanzee. Beneath its belly lies a red coloured monster, while a stack of cash is hidden within its internal skeleton. Whenever problem arises, politicians will always save themselves first, and let others be the scapegoat. 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.