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MY MEMORIES of Free School would ebb over time, I had thought. They might indeed have, but for a chance occurrence in 2015 that brought a lot, and more, gushing back. After that year, with events of the Bicentenary flaring for a couple of years, I got more and more
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FOR my first solo in October 2022, I had to make a last-minute decision to place “Not for sale” tags on three 3ft x 4ft pieces. It was an expensive but neccesary move. I had made a series incorporating the works of Matisse, Van Gogh, Picasso and Klee, thinking that
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THE period it took to prepare for and subsequently tie up the loose ends of my first solo exhibition was very long – from August to December, 2022. As a reprieve from all the organisational work, I decided to follow Paul Klee’s idea of taking a line for a walk
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WHEN I was approached to do a self-portrait for an exhibition called “The Naked Face” (see details in the caption below), I was a bit alarmed. It has been ages since I did anything about myself. I finally decided to bring out two pieces from the past, one from 1975
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AFTER my first solo in 2022, I decided I would produce a set of prints on my alma mater Penang Free School based on the concept of Exaggerated Stills (read here). To show that the school and its buildings are rich in heritage, I wanted to use abstract eyes as
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DURING the late 1980s I got involved in a business retailing mainly household and personal care goods at very reasonable prices. Just before its launch in 1988, we were short of products so I volunteered to produce a series of T-shirts. I completed seven designs and four were used. A
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IN MY “Fear and Hope in Covid Times”, when I was sliding towards negativity again, I felt a desperate need to check myself. Two ways of breaking a trend, I thought, was to go blank or go black. I decided on the latter. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change
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I HAVE always wanted to illustrate something on the “king of fruit” but never found the right mood or opportunity to do so. In early 2022, a chance discovery that a former colleague was making a documentary on a gamut of matters surrounding the fruit gave me the spark to
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PLACES that serve alcohol are a paradise for discovery – of people’s character, their secrets and fantasies. They are the regular haunts of boasters, fun seekers, sorrow drowners, even journalists and spies and their sources. Scions of Bacchus is an attempt by me to interpret in a small way the
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IN THIS SERIES, I assemble seemingly unconnected but related shapes in two or three visual perspectives so that they can be seen differently if you focus on each part. Exhibited at Restart 2020: Continuation & Change — October 2022. Click here From a distance, you see a piece of art using
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WHEN I WENT “back to black” (B2B), it was never my intention to abandon colour; it was an “active” pause to re-evaluate where I was headed. And then to move on quickly. I decided that I would examine different media, specifically how to combine analog with digital. Exhibited at Restart
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FEAR & HOPE was an unplanned piece, at least in its details and the emotive developments around it. I had been dissatisfied with “Yikes” in the Adventures with Acrylics series. However, knowing its potential, especially with more sophisticated treatment, I decided to repaint it as a much larger piece on