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Anthony Chua Say Hua
ÇL - Smith Street, 2014
Ink and Color on Rice Paper, 104 x 105 cm
USD 3,300 – 4,100
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About the artwork
What would normally be a simple representation of the city transforms into vivid depictions that elicit flashbacks and memories, under the skilful brushstrokes of Anthony Chua Say Hua. The memories form parts of a collective consciousness, recalling parts of old Singapore that are no longer as they used to be.
About the artist
Born in Singapore in 1966, Chua Say Hua is a recipient of the Chen Chong Swee Scholarship and the Philippe Charriol Foundation Scholarship. He graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (1989-92) and furthered his art education at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia (1993-94) as well as the Goldsmiths College in London (1996-97). Chua did his art residency at Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson, USA and has won numerous distinction and highly commended awards in competitions in the past decades and, in 2001, was awarded the prestigious Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council. Chua has always straddled his art practices in between Eastern and Western art so as to combine the best of both cultures. His unique contemporary Chinese ink paintings are informed in Western Modernist aesthetics while employing the logic and philosophy of traditional Chinese ink painting medium.