• Artist

• Fashion Designer/Freelance

• Karya Pilihan Tahunan Negeri Sabah, BSLS

• Pameran Bakat-Bakat Baru, Hotel Karamunsing

• Pameran Bakat-Bakat Baru

• Pameran Bakat-Bakat Baru

• Pameran Bakat-Bakat Baru
• Karya Pilihan Tahunan Negeri Sabah

Critique

The power of reality and realistic visual expression could not hold back Sabrina Majuakim’s fascination for the dark, sublimed and mysterious world of the imagination and the subconscious. Her introvert preoccupation with the mystical and spiritual realm brought her to the surrealistic form of expression. Images of struggle, pain, scream, cry, tears and horrors become the common theme running through her works. Gloomy, dark and nightmarish atmosphere envelope some weird scenes of distorted and exaggerated figures and actions dominate the themes of her pieces which tend to remind us of Fuseli’s and Blake’s works or even of Sabahan artists works like those of Anna Chin’s or Bayu’s.

About the Artist

Grotesque figures danced through the lurid colored surface of this artist’s panting whose themes are nightmarishly morbid and appalling to most others. Her works evoke a bitter-tasting unpleasant feeling of a world devoid of light, a world where only darkness, despair and emptiness remains. In a world where the painful screams and mournful cries echoes through the bleak misty mountainous range to the lonely from whence the graves of old lie and where hidden terror rages boldly unbarred without the binding chains of any man or god. Hell reigns through this artist’s paintings.

Yearning for the companionship of others, she spent most of her childhood conjuring up unseen friends from her active imagination and sought solace to free the visions perceived in her mind by means od scribbling on the walls. Desolation plagues the young artist during times spent in childhood which followed her through the years of her adulthood. Her earliest works Paradise Lost, For What I Should’ve Done just to name a few which began in 1998, appears to be somewhat influenced by the style of Abstract-Expressionism artist Jackson Pollock as can be perceived with the crudely splattered paint upon the painting’s surface. However, as though tormented by some experience in life, her present style has changed. It has developed more towards the surreal and fantastic art ( The Maiden Weeps, The Angry Princess, Ophelia, etc..). Great adversity, grief, pain, angst, Death and the supernatural are glorified themes in her work.

In The Running Man, the bald figure appears to be running from the visitation of both Dante and Virgil in the abodes of eternal punishment, he flees as he sees them. The meaning of this painting goes deeper than the subject hung on the wall, Dante and Virgil both served as a symbol of authority for reason, logic, moral and knowledge which the figure tries to flee from with fear lest they should judge him for his past sins condemning him to eternal punishment. In the third painting which serves as the final chapter of the Running Man; fleeing from the judging figures, the figure at last succumbed to his final destiny (He receives his punishment in the Seventh Circle of Hell). For though the works of the two poets are greatly admired by the artist herself, perhaps, insecurity or her own self-doubt drove the figure’s own disillusionment and chastisement. Where there exist logic, there shall also be Doubt. There will be no end for the Running Man as he continues on running from the past, from his sins and from his fears.

Currently, the artist is continuing with her art that is constantly evolving towards much darker and sombre themes which she hopes to showcase in late March till the end of April 2006. Apart from her deep love for art, she is also an ardent reader of classical works as those of Blake, Poe, Dante, and so forth. A struggling writer herself, at present she is finishing the first part of her novel for future publishing.