Women In Print: A Pressing Matter

Featuring a selection of women’s voices through diverse printmaking techniques with works by Yati Kaprawi, Siti Gunong, Ooi, and shuuhuahua.  

Yati shares her evocative printworks that highlight female perspectives and activism, rooted in her advocacy for women’s rights

Siti challenges societal norms with provocative visuals that blend humor and critique, as she explores societal restrictions

shuuhuahua offers delicate risograph pieces that reframe trauma with tenderness

Ooi revisits her intimate linocut series about love, loneliness, and inner fantasies, capturing her search for connection through vivid, emotional prints

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About Yati Kaprawi

Norhayati Kaprawi is a women’s rights activist and self-taught artist whose advocacy work focuses on raising awareness of Muslim women’s rights in Malaysia. She holds an M.A. in International Media and Culture from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Yati began her creative journey with batik art on fabric before moving to painting on canvas, and in recent years, she has immersed herself in printmaking—bringing more female perspectives and lived experiences into Malaysia’s printmaking scene. She continues to expand her skills through workshops in Malaysia and Germany, and actively shares her knowledge by conducting workshops, especially for women. Through her art and teaching, Yati encourages women to express their stories, experiences, and skills in printmaking, fostering a stronger female presence in the field.

About Siti Gunong

Siti Gunong is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Kuala Lumpur. Her practice spans painting, drawing, sewing, silkscreen, installations, stencil, tagging, and tattooing—often created through raw, traditional, and non-digital methods. Siti’s work blends humour, womanhood, spirituality, and social critique, challenging cultural norms and confronting layered restrictions she observed growing up. With a bold underground aesthetic, her vibrant and sometimes provocative imagery embraces absurdity and contradictions, reflecting the complexities of personal and collective truths. Rooted in lived experience, her art is both satirical and symbolic, often exploring freedom from religion, gender roles, and societal pressures. She advocates for the right to create without limits and for the freedom to think and express without fear.

About Ooi Huiqi

Ooi Huiqi is an artist, writer, and aspiring printmaker whose creative path has been shaped by a range of unconventional experiences—from corporate roles and intense freelance projects to making coffee in an art space. Ultimately, she returned to her earliest tools: a pencil, a sketchbook, and a desire for connection. Much of Ooi’s work explores themes that linger in the quiet hours, such as in her series Love Letters to My Sleep Paralysis Demon Boyfriend (2021–2022), inspired by a recurring Shadow Entity that visited her during a period of deep loneliness. For her, this imagined presence became a symbol of warmth and grounding in her search for belonging. In this exhibition, she revisits four linoleum block prints from the series, drawn to the medium’s decisiveness and its ability to hold both fantasy and intimacy within each carved line and printed form.

About Shuuhuahua

Shu, also known as shuuhuahua, is an artist and illustrator from Penang, currently based in Kuala Lumpur. Working across illustration, risograph printing, drawing, zines, and experimental art books, she creates works that explore observation, memory, and perception. Her projects often incorporate intuitive forms, folding structures, and subtle details borrowed from everyday office documents—such as punched holes and treasury tags—infusing her pieces with a quiet, tactile presence. Shu’s art invites viewers to linger with the overlooked, reimagining the familiar through thoughtful composition and material play.

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Exhibition dates: 16th - 31st Aug

Saturdays & Sundays only 10:00am - 5:00pm

Venue: temu house, Seksyen 16, Petaling Jaya

Opening reception: 16th Aug 3pm

No registration needed No entrance fee