Hi all! This would be the first of a series called Foodography. As it literally suggest, it is a combination of food and photography. Food is simply another of my favourites besides art, as it is to many artists and those in the arts. Here, taking a photo of the dishes before all starts ripping [...]

While I was organising the 2nd France + Singapore New Generation Artists (FSNGA) exhibition, there were 50 odd artists’ submissions from France and Singapore. On the very first round of judging session conducted by Alliance Française de Singapour internal comittee to determine the Finalists, I spoted some significant proposals such as Ashley Yeo who portrayed [...]

Little that I know much about Tang dynasty and even lesser that I would realise that I would be recreating a tomb of Tang in an exhibition hall before I got to making of “Afterlife of the Tang Nobility”, Afterlife being a word I placed in the title to avoid the word death or any [...]

It was 2010, one of my most energetic year in art showcase. I followed my executive director to meet two collectors each owning different sets of Art Deco style items. After few visits, I drew up a combined list of inventory from those we selected for exhibition. Having in mind the Afterlife of the Tang [...]

An article I wrote for a travelling show which launched and concluded from and at my gallery. 1 x suitcase (2009 – 2011) In 2009, eight suitcases were packed, containing in each the creations and belongings of eight Singaporean artists, from a space they were let opened before, for all to peep and ponder over [...]

Steve Chua was one artist whom I knew from Ernest Chan, whom was teaching him painting before. Steve’s paintings and drawings takes after Ernest’s style, however grew to have a more perfectionist route compared to the freer or more angular stokes of the one her learnt after. I will be elaborating more on them in [...]

It was a coincidence that I met my ex classmate Alvin Herawan, an Indonesian, near my house several times as his girlfriend was just staying few blocks away from mine. We exchanged few friendly conversations and what we are up to recently. He brought up that he was attempting a Singapore version of a spot [...]

Previously Chen Yunxiao was based and Singapore back from 2001 till 2010. I met him back in our college, LASALLE where he was majoring in fine arts. Ironically he has already attain a relatively good qualification in fine arts in China and was even teaching that subject. There was a place the students dearly call [...]