Women Artists of Singapore

In Singapore many women artists are there. The year of 1980 saw the growth of many striking women artists including Chng Seok Tin, Eng Tow, Han Sai Por, and Lin Hsin Hsin.

Chng Seok Tin is one of the promising artists in Singapore who graduated from NAFA. She had long years of studying and working abroad. The artist was very famous in print work. Flowing was one of the examples. Her Man and Environment is a mixed media piece on the theme of society, man, and the environment. This work is the culmination of Chng’s experiments with different materials such as fabric, paint, paper pulp and plaster to produce reliefs, painterly qualities, and textures.

Eng Tow’s Kelong series and Shikoku Isle are the great works. These show the transformation of mixed media materials through casting, pressing, and shaping. She was a graduate of NAFA, Eng studied textile in Britain. She worked there as a lecturer and designer in textile. After that she returned to Singapore in the year 1981. In 1970 Eng’s work was mainly textile construction while in 1980s she also became interested in hand cast paperwork.

Han Sai Por’s Growth of 1985 is a famous work. It consists of five related forms. The five pieces are carved from marble that reveal Han’s sensitiveness in the handling of the material. Han has affected these stone surfaces through delicate sculpting with subtle and tactile nuances. Spirit of Nature which is a work of Han’s in the year of 1988 expresses the notion of a diverse unity. Each of the three pieces of carved marble displays both an essential difference and a unique identity. The existence of each piece is acceptable only as an element of the trinity. In 1992 she made a granite work and named it Object C. The canoe like sculpture has carefully modeled curvatures on the top surface with two tapering ends.

Lin Hsin Hsin’s In Appreciation of Time is provided in cobalt blue. This has become her signature color. The work is an inquiry into and also an expression of time.