https://rimbundahan.org/world-otter-day-2025/
Visual Art Exhibition, featuring otter bronzes
The Underground Gallery at Rimbun Dahan is currently showing a selection of works from the Rimbun Dahan Permanent Collection related to otters and their wetland homes. Most of the works have been produced by resident artists at Rimbun Dahan, during our residency program that has been running since 1994.

The exhibition also includes an exclusive viewing of 4 bronze sculptures by Datin Waveney Jenkins from the 1980s — an otter family reuniting after 40 years!


In the 1980s, British sculptor Waveney Jenkins made a series of bronze sculptures inspired by the sleek acrobatic shapes, as well as the playful and affectionate nature, of Malaysian otters. The works were sculpted in clay in Kuala Lumpur, before being sent to Meridian Foundry in Peckham, London, where they were cast in bronze. After 40 years of living in Malaysia, Datin Waveney and her husband Datuk Peter Jenkins retired to the Isle of Man, where Datin Waveney lives today. (Waveney was also one of the key figures in Badan Warisan, focused on the conservation and sustainability of East Coast Malay woodcarving and heritage architecture.) Some of the otter sculptures remained in the hands of Malaysian art collectors.

Now, for the first time, four different sculptures from Datin Waveney’s otter series will be brought together: in the Underground Gallery at Rimbun Dahan, in honour of World Otter Day 2025. One of the sculptures belongs to the Rimbun Dahan Permanent Collection. The other three are on generous loan from Datuk Ir. Rosaline Ganendra.

Drop in to World Otter Day this Sunday 25 May, between 11am and 5pm, to view these splendid works.