Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Thursday, April 23, 2015
While Monica Nixon’s current exhibition, “A Universal Truth”, at Barnadas Huang, peels away the layers of meaning defining a home by centering our focus on the physical terrain and buildings dotting her America, Indonesian Entang Wiharso…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Sunday, April 19, 2015
The way nature plays with light never ceases to be amazing. A multi-hued rainbow that crests the skies after a heavy shower are a sight to behold, especially when it is harmoniously accompanied by a marginally…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Friday, April 17, 2015
We have all heard about the effects of China’s 1 child policy: in the culturally driven bid to have a son, daughters born are sometimes killed or, at best, anonymously abandoned in orphanages to face the…
Posted by Rachel Poonsiriwong on Thursday, April 16, 2015
Sterling Singaporean artist Ong Kim Seng in Nostalgia In Transformation reflects his perspectives on local infrastructure as part of an SG50 Exhibition at Ode to Art Gallery. Infused with personal memories of the places he paints, his scenes…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Tuesday, April 14, 2015
In 1996, Singapore-born Simryn Gill’s “Forest”; a series of large black-and-white photographs that documents temporary installations in which she also ‘seeded’ a mangrove swamp, a beach and the garden of her family home; visually reversed the…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Monday, April 13, 2015
During my teens Laura Ingalls Wilder’s semi-biographical “Little House on the Prairie” series of books captured my vivid imagination. Her life growing up with her settler family on the Great Plains in the United States of…
Posted by Rachel Poonsiriwong on Wednesday, April 1, 2015
A gentleman in a charcoal grey suit stands against the sea and the cloudy sky, partly veiled by the rotund green apple. Undoubtedly, we are talking about “The Son of Man” (1964) by René Magritte, one…
Posted by Rachel Poonsiriwong on Monday, March 23, 2015
One would recollect the prodigious development in Singapore’s art scene back in the 1950s by catching a glimpse of fishing sampans with a Western composition — the Nanyang style. Now, how do we react to plastic…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Thursday, January 29, 2015
Ivory black, or ‘pigment black 9’ and ‘bone char’, is an artist’s dye that was once made by grinding charred ivory in oil. Today, actual ivory is no longer used, given the expense and the fact…
Posted by Wai Lin Coultas on Tuesday, January 27, 2015
If Singaporean Ho Tzu Nyen’s winning the Grand Prize Award for Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2014, Singapore’s Lee Wen’s nomination for the inaugural Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art (2015) and…