Art Talk
Animals Kingdom Charity Art Exhibition
By SY Lim
lim@artmalaysiagroup.com

By SY Lim
lim@artmalaysiagroup.com
lim@artmalaysiagroup.com
My feelings of viewing the paintings and works exhibited recently in the Animals’ Kingdom Charity Art Exhibition was like reading Aesop's famous fables, featuring many familiar creatures both love and feared. As the stories effectively waive the human and animals relationships in such brevity, capturing my imagination and heart. This unique art exhibition and its art pieces indeed breathe a freshness of innocence and plea for mutual conversation with them.

Presenting art catalogue to YB Dato' Seri Mohamed Nazri, Minister of Tourism and Culture Malaysia

Presenting art catalogue to YB Dato' Seri Mohamed Nazri, Minister of Tourism and Culture Malaysia
![]() Opening speech by Minister |
![]() Support from local and foreign artsts |
![]() Young artist Delwin presenting his art to the Minister |
![]() Artist Allen presenting his creation to Minister |
![]() Group photo of participating artists with Minister |
![]() Cultural song by group performance from Perak |
Most of the art exhibitions tend to promote art pieces according to the professional level of the artist. But I was pleasantly surprised that among all the participating artists at the Animal’ Kingdom Charity Art Exhibition stand the well-known budding artist, young and silver hair artist as well as local and foreign artists. Nevertheless, this unique exhibition has provided space for all artists, together with general public in conversation with animals and creatures great and small.
![]() Artist Alice |
![]() Artist Aloysius Yapp |
![]() Artist Datuk Abdul Rahman Rahim |
![]() Artist Elnas Rostami |
![]() Artist Ethen Ng |
![]() Artist Fauziah Haji Yahaya |
![]() Artist Felicia Loh |
![]() Artist Grace Jin and I |
![]() Artist Jia Xing |
![]() Artist Jin Ok Sook from Korea |
![]() Artist Mohd. Yusof |
![]() Artist Simin Pezeshki |
![]() Artist Suzi Chua |
![]() Grace and Allen |

Gathering of artists from Iran & Iraq
Now, if only they could talk, what would these creatures say through the paintings to you and me, I wonder.

A boy in conversation

In conversation with a family of water buffalos

In conversation with a horse

In conversation with a tiger

In conversation with mother orang utan and her kid
The Beautiful AnimalBy Geoffrey Brock
By the time I recalled that it is also
terrifying, we had gone too far into
the charmed woods to return. It was then
the beautiful animal appeared in our path:
ribs jutting, moon-fed eyes moving
from me to you and back. If we show
none of the fear, it may tire of waiting
for the triggering flight, it may ask only
to lie between us and sleep, fur warm
on our skin, breath sweet on our necks
as it dreams of slaughter, as we dream
alternately of feeding and taming it
and of being the first to run. The woods
close tight around us, lying nested here
like spoons in a drawer of knives, to see
who wakes first, and from which dream.
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