Background
Ibrahim was born in 1936 in the village of Sungai Limau in the Yan district of Kedah.
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Ibrahim Hussein
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Byam Shaw School of Artist
Career
His main medium was one he devised himself and called "printage"—a combination of printing and collage. A talented artist during his youth, he began studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1956. In 1959, he moved to London, where he studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools.
He returned to Malaysia to become a resident artist at the University of Malaya.
In 1991, he founded the Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in the Langkawi rainforest—a non-profit foundation and museum dedicated to the promotion, development and advancement of art and culture. Ibrahim suffered a heart attack on 18 February, and was taken to the Pantai Medical Centre where he died the next morning just before 4.00 american
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