Solo Exhibitions & Projects > 2015

Weeds/Rumpai II

This is an expansion of the Weeds/Rumpai series from 2013, which I made in the time leading up to Malaysia’s 13th General Election. It consists of paintings of weeds from my garden, painted on political party flags collected around Port Dickson, where I live. The ratio of Barisan Nasional (the coalition that has ruled Malaysia… Read more →
Design, Illustration & Works on Paper > 2015

Activity pages for Draw, Make, Create: APT8 Kids publication

I contributed pages for Draw, Make, Create, an activity book published by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)’s Childrens’ Art Centre, in conjunction with the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. My activity is based on making a newspaper about the neighbourhood where you live. It was inspired by my own… Read more →
Performances > 2014

Scream, Honey

Underneath a tree, I tie string to a bottle of honey and throw it so that it dangles from a branch. I give out spoons, asking the crowd to taste the free-flowing honey. I invite people to sit down and scream into a pillow with me. After that we eat more honey. Performed in different… Read more →
Press > 2014

The Heat: Corporations Versus the Artist

Article in The Heat, Aug 23 – 29, 2014 issue, about ‘My Samsung, My Best Fiend‘, a collaborative artwork with Maryann Tan for Samsung Masterpieces digital art project. The work was rejected by Samsung and the curator they hired.
Collaborations > 2014

My Samsung, My Best Fiend

Collaboration with Maryann Tan about our troubled relationship to smartphones and the workers who suffer making them. This project was for the Samsung Masterpieces digital art project – invited artists were given Samsung tablets and asked to create work on them. It was rejected by Samsung. I’ve blogged about it in-depth here and here. The… Read more →
Press > 2014

The B-Side: Titillating Freedom

My drawing of Vivian Lee was the cover of The B-Side, May – June 2014. Sadly, it was also their final issue. Included in the issue is a slightly different version of my essay ‘A Portrait of Vivian Lee’, which you can read here. This version, ‘An Encounter’ was written after my first meeting with… Read more →