Ink and Paper

Consisting of 25 Singapore modern artworks featuring the likes of Cheong Soo Pieng, Chen Wen Hsi, Lim Tze Peng, and Tay Bak Koi, Ink and Paper was, perhaps appropriately, hung in the year of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee (2015). It examines Singapore’s artists through their choice of medium and the localities they rendered in their art. As Singapore’s artistic development moves into its next phase, these works provide a glimpse into the significance that ink and paper had for the artistic practices of Singapore’s leading pioneer artists. 

They also display the dexterity with which Singapore’s urban and landscape scenes are portrayed through the combination of these two media. Ink and Paper makes a statement about the importance these media had in the development of Singapore’s modern art, and draws the viewer’s attention to the paramount status of ink and paper in art-making.

Browse the catalogue here.