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Songs in Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir’s art resonates not only with sounds but movements and colours. They are internalised chords as well as the rhythms of the environs, especially Nature, distilled and meshed into a clockwork of shapes, colours and sounds. This work comes after her spiritually tinged Chasm Of Light and Nursiyah series with Islamic overtones. Song Of Songs 5 is featured in the monograph (Page 104) of her Pancawarna Selected Works 1990-2012 exhibition at the National Art Gallery Malaysia. Dato’ Sharifah comes from the pioneering batch of fine-art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (ITM, now a university), graduating in 1971. She completed her BFA at Reading University, England (1973-1976), and MFA at Pratt Institute, New York (1976-1978), under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She is dubbed as the First Lady of Malaysian Art. Her career has been consistent and sterling with awards such as the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition (1972) and the Young Contemporary Artists (BMS, 1981) and culminating in the Major Award in the 1979 Salon Malaysia. She also won 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran, in 2003. For her contributions, she was conferred a Dato’ship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006. She has come a long way since her first solo at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore in 1972. She is also a later member of the Utara Group, formed in 1977. In recent years, her artworks prices have skyrocketed at local and foreign auction houses.