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About the artwork
Ink in the hands of Quek Kiat Seng is not only the Chinese traditional technique to courageously depict a contemporary scenery but also all the substance, material and context of her paintings. She uses the versatile fluidity of it to enrich every brushstroke with a variety of forms, shadings and lightings and at the same time illuminate the whole piece masterfully with an extremely delicate abstraction that tends to challenge expressionism in a sophisticated manner.
About the artist
Born in Singapore in 1972, Quek Kiat Sing uses ink as her weapon of revelation, committing every day sights into artistic memory and refurbishing them into poetic expressions of aesthetics. With work spanning subjects such as still life to the understated magnificence of nature’s flora and fauna, the artist has even covered nudes and human movement as celebrations of the complex ethereal beauty present in the most simple of representations. Conceptually, the artist’s work is intricately multifaceted; apart from turning the mundane into a celebration of deserved highlights of beauty, the artist is also a staunch environmentalist, choosing her subjects not only for their understated beauty but for their forgotten relevance in the modern world, where nature is often overlooked in the rush for development. Seeking to speak out to her generation and beyond, the artist instigates an awareness with her works, imprinting onto the viewer’s mind the importance of their overlooked counterparts in the world today.