Here we believe it’s all about the company we keep whether it’s our furry friends facing extinction or the irrational artists we like to keep company with.

PRODUCTION MANAGER – IN HOUSE ARTIST

Sulis is quietly spirited with entrepreneurial zeal. A natural talent in the arts had him winning art competitions in his early years. After graduation, Sulis was drawn to the seminary but soon found himself preoccupied with drawing the church newsletter, and his decision was made, watercolour was his religion. 

A furniture designer, published poet and painter, Sulis has had an impressive career as a designer at Warisan, Bali’s most prestigious furniture company, and as a production manager at San Juan Ventures. Sulis’s was the finalist of the IFDA 2017 (Indonesian Furniture Design Award).

Integral to the design team Sulis and MJ collaborate on his watercolours to choose our palates. He then works with our master artists to achieve our final designs. An active member of the Bali art scene and the perpetual winner of the office smart feather Sulis is as much a part of this company as he is the company.  

AWARDS:

2019 1st prize winner as an illustrator in the Children’s Book Competition “Mumu Dan Kupu Kupu Merah”.

2017 Finalist in the Indonesian Furniture Design Awards (IFDA)

2015 Published poetry book entitled “ Ensiklopedi Pejalan Sunyi” (The Silent Walker)

1990 2nd Winner of Jogjakarta Decorative Floral Pattern Painting Competition

1989 1st Place of Jogjakarta Wayang (Puppet) Painting Competition

Tatang B.Sp needs little introduction in the art world as a much-lauded master painter of international acclaim. Like Sulis, Tatang won many competitions in school for his artworks, and the two met in their poetry group in Bali.

Originally from Tegal, Central Java, Tatang trained to be a veterinarian at Udayana University but never practised. He left university and has been an artist of social and political criticism ever since. As one of Indonesia’s foremost artists, he represents Mary Justice Designs in the wider world of master painters. 

Tatang B.Sp speaks our language and has firm beliefs in Eastern spiritualism versus Western rationalism. When working late one night in our studio and enjoying a convivial conversation, Tatang came up with a new word for our entire team as “transrational” a word that is now proudly displayed on our studio whiteboard, and we have signed by Tatang B.Sp.

His work “Borderless” was chosen for the Olympic Fine Arts 2008 Beijing, China, and is now in the permanent collection in Switzerland at the Lausanne Olympics Museum. It is Tatang’s his most recent work “Song of The Silent Forest” that really speaks to the essence of our designs (see below).

AWARDS

1998 The Top Ten Winners in the Phillip Morris Indonesia Art Awards V.

1999 Finalist The Windsor and Newton Competition Indonesia.

MUSEUM COLLECTION

2008 Artwork with the title of “Borderless” is collected by the Switzerland Lausanne Olympics Museum.

Group Exhibitions

2019 Bali Megarupa show at Arma Museum  “Song of the Silent Forest”

2018 Participant “Ausstellung Japanische Kϋnsler”, SWART Gallery Lounge, Basel, Switzerland.

2018 The 60th Anniversary of Japan – Indonesia Relationship, Exchange Memorial Exhibition, EMP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan  

2015 The 6th Beijing International  Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing 

2008 Olympic Fine Arts 2008, Beijing, China.

2003 Interpellation, CP Open Biennale, National Gallery Indonesia Jakarta

1999 Finalist The Winsor and Newton Competition Indonesia 

1998 Winner of the Phillip Morris Indonesia Art Awards 

SOLO EXHIBITONS

2001 The Lost Generation, Chedy Art Gallery, Ubud – Bali

2007 Reality of Objects, Arsphere Gallery Jakarta

Song Of The Silent Forest

His work is shown on the left.

SONG OF THE SILENT FOREST (as viewed by MJ in November at the Arma Museum, Ubud) represents Anthropomorphism (humankind) vs Biomorphisim (natural world) taken to it’s extreme. It’s a celebration in a symphony of the songs of the forest, that also comes with an underlying message.

Tatang B.Sp’s explanation of the masterpiece “Song of The Silent Forest” is that “humans are just a part of the universe. There is more out to the universe than we know, and mankind’s thinking needs to be more in tune with the sympathetic orchestra and symphony that is nature so we don’t lose our harmony. This is what my art speaks about.”  

Priced at US$ 30,000 — to request more information about this artwork email us at contact@maryjusticedesigns.com.