Shafiq Nordin's compositions are sourced from a myriad of influences including street art, comic culture, and graffiti. Utilising multiple symbols and forms within an oval format, Fragile highlights the agile movements of an octopus and an eel within an imaginary landscape. Shafiq Nordin is one of the fastest rising young artists since graduating with a BFA at the UiTM, Shah Alam, in 2012 (he did his diploma at the Lendu campus in 2010). He won the Malaysia Emerging Artist Award (MEAA) in 2013 and had the Imperium MEAA solo at the Hom Art Trans in 2016. In 2020, he won the Highly Commended, Established Artist Category at the 2020 UOB Painting Of The Year (Malaysia). He was a finalist of Bakat Muda Sezaman (BMS), National Art Gallery Malaysia in 2019. He was represented in Art Expo Malaysia for consecutive years. The year 2015 saw him taking part in art fairs in Sydney and Istanbul under Yavuz Gallery, while the Mizuma Gallery featured him in The Collective Young from Southeast Asia, Gillman Barracks, Singapore. He was represented in Art Stage Singapore and Art Kaohsiung in 2017, as well as Art Busan in South Korea in 2018. His second solo exhibition Aletheia was held in 2018. International art shows include Brain Invasion, Two Man Showcase with Shafiq Nordin, Block 17 Bacolod City, Philippines (2020) and Asia Art Connection with Eugene Gallery, Korea (2019). His group exhibitions include XIX Nineteen with Segaris Art Center (2019), and Bintang 5 Volume III with Segaris Art Center (2018). His solo titled It's A Beautiful Life was held at Secret Fresh Gallery, Manila in 2022. In 2023, his solo Familiar Faces was held at Lei Xiang Gallery, Taipei.