Soni Irawan was born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1985. Some people know him as a guitarist of a local band Seek Six Sick, and others as an artist with academic background from Faculty of Visual Art of Institut Seni Indonesia (Indonesia Institute of Arts) in Yogyakarta. Soni’s art is greatly influenced by the spirit and energy of the rock music. As apparent on the present lot, his works are filled with spontaneous strokes, sketchy figures and cut-out pieces. His subject matters, however, tends to be mostly about personal experiences he had in his family, his environment, and his favorite interest in capturing the spirit of human survival in everyday life. Soni has participated in numerous group exhibitions locally and internationally since 1996 in Yogyakarta, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Paris, London. Among major group exhibitions on which he participated is “Indonesia’s Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragon” at Mayfair, London in 2011. In the same year, his work was also exhibited in another group exhibition titled “Closing the Gap” in MIFA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. His solo exhibitions were held in Semarang Gallery in 2010, Vivi Yip Art Room in 2010, and Kendra Gallery in 2012.