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 MoreMekong Review - Our Time
Mekong Review includes my artwork ‘Our Time’ in this interesting article about the history of Lim Chin Tsong Palace.
Read MoreOh my Singapore!
Cases are rising in Singapore, my home of many years and in many ways a place I feel deeply connected to. Of the 614 new cases overnight ONLY 4 were Singaporean or Permanent Resident. So that means the rest are foreign workers. This is not a new problem. Here is a work I made about a Burmese worker who lost the sight in one eye in 2016 due to bad living and working conditions in Singapore, toiling on the Tuas boats:
Read MoreTalk by nicola anthony - with national arts council
How important is your portfolio? How do you get a foothold in the arts industry? What are the essentials needed to be an artist today?
Please join us at this free event, where I look forward to being a panel speaker & meeting many of you there. More info below.
Noise Mayhem: How To Make It! (In the Arts)
Sat 6 May 2017 | 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Singapore | Register on Eventbrite
A new sense of beginning
Having recently relocated to a new studio in Singapore where I am making a new body of work, I decided to make this post more about my working process than my artwork progress.
Singapore is amazing, sensory and inspirational. In my first week I felt both swamped in things to do (as I have everything to do in terms of exciting new places to visit, pushing forward my projects / studio / ongoing initiatives as well as setting up a new home for the time that I am here) and also a rather unusual, floating feeling of nothing to do (as I am so new to life here nothing is set in stone yet, and I have no set daily routine.)
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