JANE LEE// Red (Fetish Series), 2014
“Actually the interest in art started with me. When I was travelling in my early days, I gravitated to museums. I went to museums and saw huge classical pieces; whether I went to Amsterdam or anywhere in Europe, I would just make it a point to go to museums. And that did interest me in the beginning, but I think it [collecting] started when we came back—we had a mutual friend who started showing us works of Singapore’s artists, and that kickstarted our interest.”
— Albert Lim
“We want to build a collection that we can be proud of. And we want to introduce it to our family and to our friends. A good piece of work need not necessarily be by a famous artist. As long as it is a beautiful piece of work. And that’s what art collecting is all about.”
— Linda Neo
PROMTHUM WORAVUT // (left) This is My Boy, 2010 // (right) This is My Girl, 2010
LIM TZE PENG // Memories of Old Shophouse, 2011
“Art grows on you. It has not stopped growing. One interesting fact that we noticed was that even the English-educated, among the people that we know, gravitate towards Chinese ink works. They may not be able to read a word [of it], but they simply love the work. And I’m not surprised. There’s something about it—maybe there’s something inherent in us as Chinese or just the artistic part of a person, but we’re drawn towards something beautiful.”
— Albert Lim
“We looked at Singapore’s art... I thought we should, as Singaporeans, own Singapore[an] art. And I think that’s what we’ve been telling people.”
— Linda Neo
CHEONG SOO PIENG // Malay Girls with Bird, 1981
MELISSA TAN // Arc of Uncertainties, 2016
“Art removes the dust from your soul. When you look at it, it feeds and cleanses your soul. Some friends we have are doctors in departments where they face so much death. They just want to go to the museum. They just want to look at art. It cleanses the soul, it calms them down. Even after having a [work] for two or three years, we can still discover a lot of things. That’s something beautiful about art, you don’t get tired of it.”
— Albert Lim
SUZANN VICTOR // I was like that myself…we all held each other’s hands (Red), 2015
HONG ZHU AN // Intoxication, 2012
HAN SAI POR // Nestles 2, 2013