It’s like Alice in Wonderland, a dream world where the girl with hair neatly tied in a ponytail and all dressed up for a party is celebrating alfresco with a bunch of hare and a fierce-looking lion which obviously wants to join in the fun too. Not the hare on her right which instinctively scampers away. Though hare does not enjoy a good press with all the unsavoury connotations, animals should not be discriminated against because of size, looks or (bad) habits. Nature is to be enjoyed in all its glory and with all the living things around. Cheong Kiet Cheng means this as a reminder of happy coexistence and affinity to Nature. Kiet Cheng’s follow-up solo was also at the same gallery, called ‘Between Two Hills – The Chorus of Life (2017)’. Her breakout exhibition was in a double billing with her husband, Hoo Kiew Hang, at White Box, MAP Publika, called Jojo In The Wonderland (2013), vis a vis her husband’s ‘Paradise of Gods’. Cheong graduated with a Fine Art Diploma from the Dasein Academy of Art in Kuala Lumpur in 2006. Then came a diverse exposure in 2012, when she got a Certificate in Journalism (Hang Xing Academy of Journalism, Kuala Lumpur), a Certificate in Basic Photography (PCP Art of Photography, KL) and a Certificate in Drama Acting (Pin Stage). She also had an artist’s residency in Sasaran in 2012. Kiet Cheng was a finalist in the Malaysian Young Contemporary Artist (Bakat Muda Sezaman) competition in 2013, the Nokia Creative Art Awards in 2004 and 2005, and the Starhill Visual Art Award in 2011. She won 2nd Prize in the Watercolour category of the Tanjong Heritage Award in 2006 and the Bronze Prize in the Nanjing Art Festival in China. In 2016, she was awarded the Creative M50 in Shanghai, China.