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There is a paradox of the two spectrums of colour play: one, the overpowering orangey-red scarlet and the other, a receding blue, green and yellow flotsams in a black vortex. One, you get a feeling that they are two separate planes enmeshed together, and the other with a scarlet drawn inside centrifugally, a semblance of linkage. Dato Sharifah Fatimah Zubir reprises her Jingga (Orange) Series partly for an exhibition at the Pipal Canton Place in Guangzhou in her solo exhibition in 2014. The 2014 work takes off with ease from the Jingga works in the late 1990s, which are slightly smaller. This is an auspicious 50th year of Dato Sharifah’s art-making and she celebrated with her Song of Eucalyptus solo exhibition at the Segaris Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur, from Sept 5 to Oct 31, 2017. She has come a long way since she graduated from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university) in 1971. She studied for her BFA at the Reading University, England, in 1973-1976, and her MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York, in 1976-1978, under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981. Her biggest break came in 1979 when she won the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia 1979. Her first solo at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore in 1972 dealt with organic shapes. Then, in 1983, there was her Nursiyah (Dark Light) phase, before the tactile Touch The Earth dual exhibitions and the textile-based Garden of the Heart.