Retrospective Exhibition At Penang State Art Gallery

The best of Tay’s lifetime
Story and photos by JEREMY TAN

RENOWNED local watercolour and batik artist Tay Mo-Leong has been accorded one of the art scene’s highest honours – a retrospective exhibition featuring his life’s works at the Penang State Art Gallery.

The exhibition showcases Tay’s masterpieces dating back to the 1950s, many of which are in the hands of private collectors who have generously allowed the pieces to be exhibited.

It also marks the 10th solo exhibition for the 71-year-old who was born in Sungai Bakap and a full-time artist for the past 45 years.
Tay's batik piece "Legong Dancers in Blue".

During his secondary education at Chung Ling High School in Penang, he joined the art society and developed a passion for art under the tutelage of Khaw Sia, one of Malaysia’s foremost art pioneers.

Upon finishing high school, he enrolled at the Provincial Taipei Normal College, graduating with a diploma in fine art. Since then, Tay has enjoyed a long and illustrious career, contributing greatly to the local art scene and in particular, batik.

State Housing, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Wong Hon Wai, who was guest of honour at the opening ceremony on Saturday, said the exhibition was a great tribute to one of Penang’s most outstanding artists.
A batik piece entitled, 'Native Girls'

“Tay Mo-Leong is no doubt a household name in art circles. As such, this exhibition is a major event not just for Penangites, but the entire nation as well,” he said.

Tay also donated three of his works to the gallery, which Wong said would go a long way in making the gallery’s permanent collection one of the best in the country.

The opening ceremony also saw the launch of a 300-page hardcover book detailing Tay’s life and accomplishments. Titled Tay Mo-Leong Retrospective, the book includes a selection of over 150 of Tay’s best artworks.

“This publication is the definitive work on Tay and his life. It will be an inspiring piece for all artists and art lovers alike,” said gallery chairman Datuk Tang Hon Yin.

The exhibition at the gallery, located at the ground floor of Dewan Sri Pinang, runs until Nov 30. For details, contact 04-2613144.


As reported in Sinchew.
戴懋龍回顧展至31日‧45水彩蠟染畫作登場
2009-11-09 14:59

（檳城）《戴懋龍回顧展》於11月7至31日，在檳州藝術畫廊展出。共展出45幅畫作，水彩及蠟染畫各半，是戴懋龍歷年來的心血之作。

戴懋龍發明的“雙重防染”蠟染方式，突破了蠟染畫過去一直面對的限制，其靈感來自夏威夷的一次日本和服展。他發現日本人為和服布料染色時用的並不是蠟，而是糯米粉和面粉煮成的漿糊。

2講座會談水彩蠟染

目睹了和服的染色方式後，戴懋龍把蠟與漿糊兩種防染方式結合為雙重防染法。這種新技術解決了蠟染畫的線條限制，從此以後，蠟染畫家在畫布上就可以真正做到隨心所欲，也使蠟染畫風格更多樣，色彩更特出。

在畫展期間，戴懋龍將親自主講2場講座會，分別談論水彩和蠟染技巧，他也會示範如何製作蠟染畫。

黃漢偉：屬大馬重要展覽
戴懋龍蠟染畫嚮當當

掌管藝術事務的行政議員黃漢偉表示，戴懋龍作品回顧展不只是檳州最重要的展覽，也是大馬最重要的展覽，若大家有留意獨立後大馬的藝術發展，戴懋龍是一個嚮當當的名字，尤其在蠟染畫方面。

他前日（7日）主持“戴懋龍作品回顧展”開幕時表示，通常由像檳州藝術畫廊這樣的單位主辦的回顧展，是為了肯定一名重要的藝術家的重大貢獻，戴懋龍擁有一段長久及活躍的藝術事業，當然值得檳州政府為這位在檳州出生及作為全職畫家的子民，主辦這場特別的回顧展，檳城以他為榮。

檳州藝術畫廊主席拿督鄧康賢表示，戴懋龍今年71歲，已經舉行了第9次的個人畫展，他記得每次參觀戴懋龍的畫展，都對其水彩和峇迪畫留下深刻印象。

策展人陳忠源表示，回顧展對一個畫家來說非常重要，因為這是人生只有一次的機會，檳州藝術畫廊每年都舉辦一次回顧展，這次選擇了在繪畫事業上相當有成就及傑出的畫家戴懋龍。
星洲日報／大北馬‧2009.11.08

Presenting the school uniforms to students.

As reported in Sinchew.

打開與華校的互動之門‧民聯議員走“校服外交”
2009-11-18 14:36

（檳城）民聯議員要以“校服外交政策”打開華校與民聯議員互動之門？

近些日子以來，感觸華校不敢邀請民聯議員出席學校活動的亞依淡區州議員黃漢偉，聲稱或必須以頒發校服、校鞋來打“外交政策”，以便能名正言順走入學校，和校方有正式互動。

就在週二（11月17日），他終於有這機緣，在一所華小的全體學生面前，頒發校服給15名貧寒生。這所華小是在他選區內的僑南華小。

對於僑南小學董家教以及校方邀請他親自頒發校服給貧寒生的舉動，黃漢偉表示欣賞。

選區8所華校僅僑南回應

不過，他卻也感觸地告訴記者，早前已向選區內的各源流學校發函，通知校方若需要哪一方面的援助，包括了捐助貧寒生校服、校鞋，都可向他反映，可是反應並不鼓舞。

他說，其選區內共有8所華校，只有僑南小學回應，呈上需要校服援助的學生名單。

他相信亞依淡區內的學校必有一些貧困孩子，因此，他希望學校別因為政治壓力，而損及學生利益。

黃漢偉準備了100套校服、校鞋捐予區內的貧寒生，除了頒發給僑南小學以及拉惹茲淡小，其餘的將通過回教堂負責分發給國小的學生。

出席頒發校服、校鞋儀式的嘉賓包括了僑南小學董事長江錫強、家協主席王碧宣、財政黃輝岩、黃漢偉服務隊團員李榮友以及僑南小學校長曾清月。
星洲日報／大北馬‧2009.11.17

Rumah Hijau - Handing over the keys to the residents.

As reported in The Star
Finally, after 40 years
By DERRICK VINESH

AFTER nearly a 40-year wait, the 236 families living in the slum of Rumah Hijau in Mak Mandin, Penang, can finally move into new three-room low-cost flats located 3km away from their longhouses.

Penang Housing, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Wong Hon Wai said about 170 families had accepted the 650 sq ft units in Ampang Jajar, Butterworth, adding that he hoped the remaining families would follow suit.
236 families living in the slum of Rumah Hijau in Mak Mandin in Penang finally after 40 years.

“We will meet with the remaining families to convince them to accept the flat units which have been built for them.

“Hopefully, upon seeing their neighbours enjoying a better quality of life, they will move here as well,” he said after presenting keys to the units to families who had accepted the offer at the flats’ community hall yesterday.

Wong said the project’s developer, Silver Channel Sdn Bhd, obtained the certificate of fitness for the 20-storey block comprising 304 flats on Oct 28, while balloting for the units was done on Sept 15.
New homes: Rumah Hijau residents registering to collect their low-cost flat keys at Ampang Jajar in Butterworth, Penang yesterday.

Under an agreement with the developer, he said, all temporary occupational licence holders (TOL) from Rumah Hijau would get a free unit which costs RM42,000.

“The non-TOL holders are being offered cash compensation of RM25,000 per family.

“They have an option to take up units in this flat block by paying the difference of RM17,000,” Wong said.

He said tenants who lived in Rumah Hijau for more than five years would receive a compensation of RM5,000, while those who stayed there between a year and three years would receive RM3,000.

Tenants, who lived under a year, would not be entitled to any compensation, he added.

Wong said those who accepted the flat units had been asked to voluntarily demolish their present houses and vacate by Dec 31.

“We have to give them a deadline to move out otherwise they would take their own time to do so,” he said.

Resident Fatimah Mohamad, 53, said she was happy to relocate to the flat, noting that her wooden longhouse unit in Rumah Hijau, where she had lived for 40 years, was no longer habitable.

“The toilet in my termite-ridden house is broken; there is no proper sewage system and the area is infested with rats, flies and other pests,” she said.

Fatimah, a divorcee with five children aged between 14 and 33 including a daughter who is deaf, however, said she could not afford the deposit for water and electricity to be installed in her flat.

“I hope the developer will graciously give us a small amount for relocation expenses as we are finding it hard to raise the amount by Dec 31,” she added.

Fellow resident M. Munusamy, 49, an ex-lorry driver, said he too did not have the money to move within such a short period, adding that he hoped the state would extend the deadline.

Another resident, Chong Hsiao Nam, 79, said he was thankful to the state government for expediting negotiations with the developer, noting that the residents there had waited a long time to move into better abodes.

In April last year, Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy said that the residents gave up their original squatter houses in 1972 and moved into the longhouses in Rumah Hijau to enable the Penang Development Corporation to develop the Mak Mandin Industrial Area project.

Initially, the residents were supposed to stay in the longhouses temporarily for about three to five years, Ramasamy said, but it had been almost 40 years since they moved out.

Rumah Hijau is a slum-within-a-town. It is not accessible by cars and the houses are often hit by flash floods as well as drainage backflow.


青屋區66戶拒州政府獻議‧接受“屋賠屋”居民獲鎖匙
2009-11-25 11:57

As reported in Sinchew.

（檳城‧北海）檳州房屋、城市及鄉村規劃委員會主席黃漢偉表示，北海麥曼珍青屋區的72%家庭，即170戶經接受州政府以一屋賠一屋或2萬5000令吉的賠償方案。

他說，北海麥曼珍青屋區共有236戶家庭受到迫遷的影響，所以目前僅剩下66戶居民尚不接受州政府獻議的賠償。

他表示州政府賠償方案的門戶隨時開放，所以那些尚未接受賠償的家庭如果改變初衷的話，可致電威北縣署官員里查04-5759963。

黃漢偉是週二（11月24日）早上代表州政府移交安邦惹惹組屋鎖匙予全部接受以“一屋賠一屋”的青屋區居民之儀式上致詞時這麼說。出席者尚包括峇眼達南區州議員丹納及首長國會選區助理陳楷棕等人。

接受賠償居民須12月31前搬空

他說，拿到鎖匙的居民從即日（11月24日）開始，隨時都可以遷入居住，不過相信居民們都會等到申請到水電後才後陸續遷入新居。

他指出，州政府也限定接受賠償的居民，必須在12月31日前搬空青屋區的房屋及將房子拆除。

他說，在超過三分之二居民接受州政府的賠償方案後，經證明這是一個人民都能接受的賠償方案，不過州政府還是會繼續接見剩下的66戶居民，以瞭解他們不接受賠償方案的理由後，然後才另尋方法逐一解決。

他說，此座20層組屋共有304個單位，每個單位有650平方呎及有3間房，而且它與青屋區的距離尚不到3公里，如以時速50公里行走，只須6分鐘而已。

安邦惹惹組屋10月28獲入伙證

他希望那些尚不願意搬遷的居民，應該會想像到當其中三分之二鄰居及朋友都遷走及將房屋都拆除後的情景堪憐。

他指出，安邦惹惹組屋已在10月28日獲得入伙准證，而州政府則早在9月15日經讓青屋區居民進行抽籤。

他說，此組屋的基本建設和居住環境遠比青屋區完善清潔，希望那些尚在考慮的居民，能重新改變不搬的決定。

沒能力負擔搬遷裝修費
居民盼州政府再撥款

部份北海麥曼珍青屋區居民在領取房屋鎖匙後，突然在現場向首長助理提出額外要求，並希望州政府能夠再撥出一筆款項，充作他們搬遷及裝修屋子的用途！

這些居民說，他們都是貧苦人家，所以沒有能力負擔搬遷費用，希望州政府能考慮協助他們，否則他們可能沒有能力在短時間內遷離青屋區。

他們表示，再加上組屋內的百葉窗口及廁所旁皆尚未裝上鐵支，這可能對小童的生命造成威脅及竊賊輕易潛入屋內，所以希望州政府能撥款為人民建造鐵花或鐵支，來保障小童們的安全。

80歲居民：終於脫離惡劣居住環境

在北海麥曼珍青屋區居住長達40年的居民張紹南（80歲），終於等到政府賠償的組屋，讓他得以脫離青屋區的惡劣居住環境！

他表示在與妻子繳交水電費抵押金後，就會遷入安邦惹惹組屋居住。

他表示其一男一女經成家而住在他處，所以只有他與老妻相依為命。

他表示感激州政府特地安排第一樓的單位給他，以方便他們出入。
星洲日報／大北馬‧2009.11.24

Revival of Abandoned Project - Fettes Villa

As reported in Sinchew.
光大52樓首次對談會
花地園購屋者發展商雙贏

拖了13年的花地園（Fettes Villa）屋業擱置計劃，週四中午在檳州政府撮合下，受影響的購屋者於新接手的發展商瑋力產業，在光大52樓首次舉行對談，並獲得不錯的成果。

計劃命名“嵩峰閣”

州行政議員黃漢偉說，花地園共有588戶單位受影響，其中中廉價屋為356戶，中價屋212戶，店屋則20戶。在白武士瑋力接手後，有望在明年復工，並將計劃命名為“嵩峰閣”（The Peak）。

“這是我們首次召開會議，絕對不會是最後一次。希望受影響者能夠配合，儘快把問題一起來解決。”

中廉價屋增至564個

此發展商代表羅振銓在會上解釋，“嵩峰閣”計劃和較早前的“花地園”不同，其中中廉價屋的數量從原有的363單位，增加至564個，而中價屋亦從907單位減少至648個單位，至於店屋則從20單位提昇到30個。

“中廉價屋單位的面積，從原有的500平方尺增加至650平方尺，價錢也從原本的5萬令吉提高到7萬5000令吉左右；中價屋的面積從700平方尺改成1000及1100平方尺兩種設計，價錢方面則從原來的12萬令吉躍升至25萬8000令吉起。”

不願意購買將退回訂金

他說，目前這間公司會先處理中價屋的問題，並在明年3月才發信通知中廉價屋購屋者作出協調，看看對方是否願意繼續購買。

“如果不願意購買，我們將退回10%的訂金，這僅僅限於中廉價屋而已。”

另一方面，購屋者行動委員會陳錦鐘亦說，現在他們所面臨的問題是聯絡不上先前的購屋者，因此，他呼吁之前的購屋者能夠主動聯繫瑋力產業（04-2108000）或他本身（016-4905286），以期能夠儘快解決問題。

Solving water gutter leakage problem affecting 4 houses at Solok Zoo, Air Itam

It is an in-fill development. During the construction of a double storey house, the water gutter of 4 neighbouring houses were affected by the vibration and leakage happened. My voters came to me. I intervened by asking the contractor to resolve the problem and now it is solved.

黃漢偉早前巡視阿依淡選區時說，他早前接到居民王良輝的投訴，鄰居裝修時不小心弄壞連接他及鄰居共4間家的雨水槽，導致雨水偶爾會流進家裡。

他在接到居民投訴後，在他、裝修住家的屋主、市政局等人的協助下，已解決此問題。