NAZERUL

KHAIRY BEN-DZULKEFLI

Nazerul Khairy Ben-Dzulkefli is a Singapore-born artist who currently lives and work in Perth, Western Austrlia. His works have made their rounds in various group exhibitions in Boorloo since 2017. He was selected as one of twenty-five most notable Australian art graduates of 2021 and was part of the 30th annual Hatched National Graduate Exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).
He has also exhibited in the State Library of Western Australia, ECU's Spectrum Project Space, Gallery Central, Stala Contemporary, Lawson Flats, Sweet Pea Arts, Gotham Artist Studios, and Turner Galleries.

Since moving to Perth in 2017, he developed an affinity with clay as a medium and creates sculptural works exploring the themes of longing and belonging while navigating his new identity as a Singaporean Malay-Javanese migrant in Perth.

Through text, texture and images on clay objects, shrines, guardians and quasi-ritual objects, he wishes to take on the role of custodian to familial memories and to preserve microhistories and tell stories of personal experiences growing up in Singapore.

This year he has been selected to present new works as part of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial and is a committee member of the festival's youth program to incubate the exchange of ideas, resources and skills between artists and craftspeople.

He currently enjoys a four-day work week as a Visual Art Technician in a Catholic college and facilitates ceramics/sculpture workshops across various locations in Perth. When he is not working in his studio, Nazerul enjoys walking the grounds of a nearby vineyard and gardening in his backyard, re-imagining curious folk Malay and Javanese rituals, writing systems, demons, spirits and demigods of Nusantara (the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago).