Mohammad Din Mohammad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Durian Tunggal, Malaysia
About Mohammad Din Mohammad
- Mohammad Din Mohammad is a Singaporean Malay painter who is known for his expressive works of art inspired by Sufism.
- Mohammad's paintings and sculptures are also heavily influenced by his devotion to the practice of the Malay martial arts called silat.
- He was also a practising bomoh, or Malay healer.Born in Kampung Gangsa in Malacca, Malaysia, Mohammad's family migrated to Singapore when he was two years old.
- As a boy he was interested in art, experimenting in ceramics, making clay cups at the age of five.
- Formal education for Malay youths, meant the study of traditional art forms at the time.
- At the age of 12, Mohammad began to learn silat and traditional massage and herbal healing techniques.
- In 1973, Mohammad went on to study art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in western painting, where he took to the Realist portrait painting style.
- After graduating in 1976 he began his life as an artist plying on the old Bugis Street, and drawing portraits for tourists.
- This went on for the next 5 years.In 1980, Mohammad began acting with Malay theaters, with his first role as the character Laertees in a Malay adaptation of Hamlet by the Malay arts group Perkumpulan Seni.
- He also acted in a Singaporean drama serial, Jejak Kembara (The Wanderer) in April 1980.In 1983, a severe motorcycle accident in Pontian nearly cost Mohammad his ankle.
- Though doctors managed to join back the ankle in place gangrene set in soon after the operation.
- Ignoring his doctor's plea to amputate, Mohammad sought traditional medical help from his silat master Hamin Bujang, and after two years' of treatment he was able to walk again.
- He became a strong believer in traditional Malay medicine, and went on to study and practice traditional healing techniques.
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