Mohamed Kamal Bin Dollah is a practicing artist, designer and art educator. He was born in Singapore, 1967. The former president (2002-2006) of Angkatan Pelukis Aneka Daya (APAD – an association of Malay artists), Kamal is well versed with the development of artists, particularly Malay artists in Singapore, and the development of batik artists and paintings in Singapore.

He lecture part-time (since 1994) at Singapore’s premier art institution: Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and regularly conducts workshops on Batik at various schools. Key public engagements on the subject included:

Speaker – Batik Art in Southeast Asia: Tradition and Modernity @ Singapore Art Museum on 21 April 2007

Exhibition Organiser – Batik: Rethinking Tradition @ Singapore Art Show 2005

Kamal chronicles his numerous engagements (with photos) at promoting batik as an artistic medium on his blog at http://kamaldollah.wordpress.com/tag/batik