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About the artwork
In this painting the artist Quek Kiat Sing creates a conscious proactive in depicting a natural scenery with the use of traditional Chinese painting technique, by the use of subtle brushstrokes and expressive textures and movements which are still completely in balance with the main concept which is to depict a natural scenery. Ink as a type of material that is constantly changing in its texture, form and body, being fluid and of an enriched history behind, includes the process of time and transformation inside the painting as well.
About the artist
Born in Singapore in 1972, Quek Kiat Sing uses ink as her weapon of revelation, committing every day sights into artistic memory and refurbishing them into poetic expressions of aesthetics. With work spanning subjects such as still life to the understated magnificence of nature’s flora and fauna, the artist has even covered nudes and human movement as celebrations of the complex ethereal beauty present in the most simple of representations. Conceptually, the artist’s work is intricately multifaceted; apart from turning the mundane into a celebration of deserved highlights of beauty, the artist is also a staunch environmentalist, choosing her subjects not only for their understated beauty but for their forgotten relevance in the modern world, where nature is often overlooked in the rush for development. Seeking to speak out to her generation and beyond, the artist instigates an awareness with her works, imprinting onto the viewer’s mind the importance of their overlooked counterparts in the world today.