The Star: Outlining an artistic life
Article in The Star about my solo show ‘Ingin Jadi Pelukis: Drawings 2013 – 2018’ at HOM Art Trans, by Terence Toh, 17 Feb 2019 Read more
Article in The Star about my solo show ‘Ingin Jadi Pelukis: Drawings 2013 – 2018’ at HOM Art Trans, by Terence Toh, 17 Feb 2019 Read more
Sometimes it is good to make things for no reason other than to feel what it’s like to have images and words well up like water in a hole you have dug in the soft earth.
I drew this after the May Day rally in Kuala Lumpur, where I met Edward Low from MTAAG+. Now is a good time to post it because it was announced on 5 Oct 2015 that agreement has been reached on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPPA. The TPPA is controversial because it’s being negotiated… Read more
I am supposed to write something. I’ve been avoiding it. I ate a hand-full of nuts, then a hand-full of raisins, then went back for more nuts. Soon there will be no more nuts, or raisins. I walked in circles around my house. I picked 5 fleas off the cat’s belly. I have fallen into… Read more
I spent the last six weeks making paintings that will be shown in a museum in Australia. Ten years ago, getting into that exhibition and that museum was the height of my ambition. I think about that when I look at these drawings on notebook paper, and puzzle over the gap between my professional artist… Read more