23 Works of Art
Breakthrough Artist |
Spending the last 4 years working in London has been a great priviledge and really opened me up as an artist as well as a person. Having been brought up in Singapore, a place with strict code and structure, London has definitely introduced and got me interested in many other working methodologies. Being blessed with these new knowledge, coming back home now puts me in an precarious but extremely exciting position questioning art and its functions.
The subject matter of my works is often based on a satirical and self-mocking approach towards modern life. By translating my relationship with society into art, I hope to be able to engage the viewers in constructing and projecting their narrative upon the painting. A stage is set up for the viewers to play different roles in the painting based on their individual code of appropriate ethics and subjective moral dilemmas they face: Ugly versus beautiful, disapproving but mesmerizing, accepting yet disbelieving.
My works has also been influenced by photography on a more formal level. Through painting, I want to question and investigate why Realism of the photograph has always been the accepted and conventional mode of vision. This fascination with how people read paintings in relation to 'realism' led me to experiment with fabrication of reality and breaking down of illusions. The ability to use paint to re-invent reality into a constructed signs of visual language and symbols allows me to stimulate our senses to question what we are seeing on the canvas. Is the paint suppose to be a facade of illusion or is it an existent surface constructed by different colours, form, texture and marks?
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The Locksmith
Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:43 pm
186 View
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The Barber
Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:42 pm
168 View
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In this case, Harmony is Essential
Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:40 pm
132 View
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Long Live The King
Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:36 pm
113 View
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Play Time
Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:33 pm
117 View
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Counting Sheep
Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:38 pm
195 View
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I'll Huff, I'll Puff and I'll blow your house in
Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:36 pm
247 View
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The Early Bird Never Catches the Worm
Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:35 pm
169 View
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SuperCow
Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:16 pm
154 View
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