Suhaimi, Izziyana (1986)

Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition, curatored by Izziyana Suhaimi, Singapore 2015. Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition, curatored by Izziyana Suhaimi, Singapore 2015. Copyright Singapore Art Museum

Izziyana Suhaimi is a Singapore-based textile artist who works principally with weaving and embroidery techniques. Her work is characterised by a combination of illustration and embroidery, as for instance portraits of women decorated with geometric or floral embroidered motifs (see illustration below).

Izziyana Suhaimi: Just Lia. Copyright Tumbir (tumblr m5vd7kfUtR1qhxbtro1 500).Together with the Singapore Art Museum and the Yellow Ribbon Project ( a community initiative aimed at helping the re-integration of ex-prisoners), she worked with inmates of the Chiangi Women's Prison and helped them to create a series of art works on the themes of celebration, home, hope and transformation. One of the results was the Yellow Ribbon Community Art Exhibition, which opened in 2015.

Illustration: Izziyana Suhaimi: 'Just Lia'. 

Copyright illustration.

Website of Izziyana Suhaimi (retrieved 24 March 2022).

WV, 24 March 2022

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