PASSAGE is Friends Of the Museum's bi-monthly magazine featuring articles relating to Singapore's museums, permanent collections, special exhibitions, local history, and Asian art. This edition features an article by writer and journalist Uta Weigelt who was interested in my installation artworks made with Saga seeds, the bright red seeds of the Saga (Adenanthera) tree found in SouthEast Asia, which symbolise love, nostalgia, and longing….
Read MoreAlchemy, seeds, words: New Saga Seed Series
Pictured here is another artwork commission from a new series of works - If you would like one then here's how we can create it together:
I make these pieces by asking you for three words, then I use these to create a poetic construction of 'found words' cut from books and correlating saga seeds (symbolising love and connection) in glass alchemic tubes.
Get in touch if you would like to commission one, or click here to learn more about the commissioning
This new series of seed & text artworks follows on from my previous Saga Seed Series, where I collected and hand numbered 9000 seeds from all over Singapore.
Read MoreEating gold leaf, inhaling paint, creating new work…
Nestled away in my studio I have accidentally become covered in gold leaf, and have had to try very hard not to unwittingly inhale the ground minerals that I used in my latest works, but it was all worth it: The new artworks below have been born.
Read MorePass It on featured on OKTO TV - Art Reborn
In the video, you will see what the Art Reborn film crew discovered when they made a visit earlier this month to the Displacements exhibition, plunging into the creative depths of 13 Wilkie Terrace to find out how the artists have used, reused, and re-appropriated a house which has spent 77 years as a family home.
Read MoreTV coverage for 'Pass It On'
TV coverage for 'Pass It On'
You will be able to see me talking about this artwork on A-OK (Arts on Okto) in Singapore this week.
Look out for 'Art Reborn', 10pm, Weds 19th June 2013, on Okto.
Read MoreFinder Magazine covers Displacement Exhibition and 'Pass it On'
I'm pleased to have been interviewed for the Finder Magazine alongside 5 other artists from Displacements Exhibition! Drop by 13 Wilkie Terrace to pick up a free Finder Magazine...
Read More'Pass it On' featured in Asian Art Happenings
'Pass it on' and the Displacements Exhibition featured in Asian Art Happenings
Read MorePass It On: A new artwork by Nicola Anthony
Pass It On began with the idea of creating little points of knowledge and connection, which form a narrative from one place to the next, and beyond. Referencing the evolution, shift and migration of many things, the installation seeks to create a space in which to consider the positive and negative effects of the process of change, the fluid nature of culture, knowledge, memory and history. The resulting sculpture involves 8900 hand-numbered saga seeds – tiny red particles which the audience are invited to take and pass on.
Read MoreMy 8000 piece artwork: Behind the scenes
I have been taking the ‘found object’ to a new level, and I will also be telling all the stories of the process of finding and collecting the individual seeds (all 8000 of them), through the artwork and via this blog. The sculpture Pass It On began with the simple idea of a sentence as a line with a beginning and end. The resulting sculpture comprises more than 8000 saga seeds, which the audience is invited to take and pass on.
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