Aliwal Arts Night Crawl
August 11, 2018
XY Hotel
August 17, 2018
Nestled within Sultan Arts Village is an unassuming yet intriguing shopfront. But don’t hesitate, step in and you will find a cosy shop filled with exquisite Javanese and Malay crafts, and perhaps a Burmese cat snoozing in a corner. You have arrived at ‘Kiah’s Gallery’, a treasure chest containing the ancient and beautiful art form, batik.
Batik is widely known as a unique and traditional technique of dyeing cloth and using wax to create patterns in the cloth. It is however often stereotyped as something old-fashioned, a ‘thing of the past’. But to Yati and her family, batik is so much more than that.
Yati and her family run the ‘Kiah Gallery’, a batik-inspired arts showroom and shop. Started in 2011, this family-run business is named after Yati’s mother, and is an ode to a family legacy and shared love for batik. After all, that is the essence of this gallery – a fervent passion for the art of batik.
