Image size: 84.0 x 79.8 cm
Khairul Anwar Salleh is a Singapore artist. He received his art education from La Salle College of Arts (1986-1989), where he majored in Painting, and the Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia (1991-1993), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a focus on Film & Television, Sculpture and Visual Culture. He was frequently featured in local newspapers between 1983 and 1993 — during this time, he was an active young member of Angkatan Pelukis Aneka Daya (APAD) and The Artist Village, as well as a talented screen and stage performer. A Study of 3 Thermos Flasks is one of Khairul’s most iconic paintings. Its stylistic features are quite different from his other works, which tend to encapsulate the moving body while alluding to his performance practice. Produced when Khairul was most active in Singapore’s arts scene, the work resembles a simplistic caricature; the marks scribbled and smudged across the painting give it the appearance of a work in progress, or perhaps vandalised. This was
