Zakaria Sharif
Artist
Brief info
Fine Art graduate and Master of Art and Design (Fine Art and Technology) from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. A full-time artist with vast experienced in teaching art at Universlti Teknologi MARA.
An artist must be turned off with such a statement. It is, however, an artist's secret touch and special expertise to produce such works. Only comprehension recognises the language of the material or its media. Sometimes that inspiration cannot be described directly or even in reality. Instead, it is worked within that express1ive touch, abstract or simple, and the minimalist forms. This work is an outburst from nature/natural/natural occurrence treated as symbolic, symbolic or iconic only.
Statement, Exhibitions & Achievements
Statement
Organic and geometric shapes become formalistic capital as a result of the work. Even the material or the medium used depends on its availability and to who it belongs to or even as a found object. The iron and wood are the main materials either from planned or unintentional effect (accidental effect). Symbolically, it occurs in different forms physically but visually, art is a shape based on simple forms, formalistic styles and self -abstraction.
The ARCA experiment changes according to the resulting object, be it a symbol of nature from plants, flora and fauna, growing and creeping, standing and erect stylish and unpretentious.
Sometimes, it is tainted with current issues, expressions, satire or humour or merely a general statement only. Maybe, it is easy to understand and is the closest and synonymous with us.
- Made by Hand (GateriWan, Kuala Lumpur)
- Kedah Open Show,Salon Malaysia 91/92 (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur)
- Open Show ’92 (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur)
- Young Contemporary (National Art Gallery, Kuala L!umpur)
- Pursuing A Dream, Rahime Harun (Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur)
- Earthwork (GaleriWan, Kuala Lumpur)
- Positivety A Life AIDS (GaleriWan, Kuala Lumpur)
- 2 Steps Thinking (ArtCase Galleries, Kuala Lumpur)
- Lembaran ’95 (Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur)
- Phillips Morris Art Competition (National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur)
- Form of Doa (Pelita Hati Gallery of Art, Kuala Lumpur)
- Transit A4 (HOM Art Gallery,Kuala Lumpur)
- MetalMania (Segaris Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur)
- Ameliorate (Galeri Prima, Kuala Lumpur) and others.
- 3rd prize Drawing Competition (Galeri Shah Alam, 1992)
- Minor Award Young Contemporary (National Art Gallery, 1994)
- Honorable Mention, Philips Morris Art Award (National Art Gallery, 1997)
- Best Prize 1Malaysia Contemporary Mural Painting (National Art Gallery, 2010)
- 1st Prize LS7 Street Art (MSA, Shah Alam)
- Platinum Award Waste to Art Sculpture 2018
- Best Prize Public Sculpture (RITMA, Johor 2020) and others
Through a prolific art practice, mind to explore the manipulation of perception, the mark making and touching of materials emphasize the unique and expressive. A symbols to grow of nature is an artistic translation of the relation between the soul, the mind and ability to portray determine one’s idea.
Nature provides imagers and creative challenges that it would take countless
lifetimes even for the finest artist to create all the possibilities in art.
Fine artists understand that while adapting nature is their muse of beauties.
Growing up into art and creativity certainly does not occur in vacuum.
Creating art work is like a tree, stretching out to reach a light for energy in order not to just flourish but to grow. Although you might have the instinct but with skill you have more options. I feel that I am still working creating art and with background of sculpture, painting and creative design. I can look at something from a different angle.
My work includes both representational and non-representational sculptures. Curved shapes, organic and geometric, and abstract designs are common themes. Many of the sculptures are based on organic shapes. My imaginations began only after I having been filled with stimulations and exposed to itself. Our creativity need a constant expression of intellectual and emotional involvement.