It’s back to the conventional painterly surface here for Ivan Lam, a fast-rising contemporary artist known for his using industrial materials and more electronic-bent gizmos. This yellow-tinged work was done in 2003, the year he won one of the Malaysian-level prizes in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards. Ivan Lam graduated with a Master’s in International Contemporary Art and Design Practice from the University of East London, Maine College of Art, USA, in January 2007, and BA in Fine Art (Full honours) in 1998, after his Graphic Design certificate from the Limkokwing Institute of Technology in 1994. He was one of the top 10 finalists for Hong Kong’s Sovereign Art Prize in 2006 and was commissioned by Louis Vuitton to create an artwork for their collection. It was in Portland, Massachusetts, that he had his first solo called Ins And Outs, in 1998. After three solos with Taksu, the first two in Kuala Lumpur and the last in Singapore, Ivan Lim came under the banner of Wei-Ling Contemporary Gallery, hitting off on the right note with After All These Years in 2007, then Panorama (2009), Together Alone (2011), MACHINES (2012), Cutting The Lines That Bind (2016) and Twenty, a major survey exhibition in 2014 of his 20-year career. With the gallery, he has featured in Art Stage Singaporein (2011) and Art Basel Hong Kong (2013).