Fauzul Yusri was born in 1974 , Kedah, Malaysia. The work of this UiTM Shah Alam graduate has been consistently strong over his decade-long career, with 6 solo exhibitions and countless group exhibitions to his name. He was recently featured in WARNA (Hong Kong's contemporary art exhibition) as one of five prominent expressionist artists from Malaysia.  His ability to pragmatically push his painting in new directions while maintaining a vocabulary of individual mark-making has arrived at a mature expression.

A rougher surface than linen, the jute’s heavy woven thread compliments the kind of signature surface scarring, loose irreverence and layering that have become fundamental to the structure of Fauzul’s images. The viewer can easily dissect the image into layers that build the picture, not only in terms of traditional spatial depth from thin paint on raw jute to a dense top application, but also as a device in creating texture within the painting to enliven the surface. It animates the isolated figures and forms so that they appear to float, masked and cropped collage-style by the dense upper surface. The forms become weightless and playful against the raw jute, holding a delightful synchronicity with their inspiration - the scratchy pavement drawings of a child’s game.

While it is easy to read Fauzul's paintings as the games and dreams of a child, Fauzul’s geometric abstractions also have the urbanity of graffiti, of scuffed and scarred walls and that sense of decay of contemporary life.