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[10 questions to ask a gallery-if you want to start collecting]
Ever wondered what to ask when you walk into an art gallery? Many times we feel intimidated and awkward when we walk into an art gallery. As part of helping you the collector we kick off our first episode “Ten questions to ask a gallery – if you want to start collecting.” Hosted by our very own gallery associate Amanda. Enjoy this episode.
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[MALAYSIAN ART SERIES]
Having obtained his Diploma in Visual & Digital Arts from Limkokwing University College of Creative Technology in 2000, Sean Lean’s work often deals with the issues of fragmented identities and the contradictions between traditional Eastern values and the lure of Western popular culture. Through his works, Lean branches out with his own history and personal memory and reflects on the events that have shaped his country and his region. He traces social, political, and religious tensions, disparities, and engages with stories that have shaped the collective memory of his region. Despite the seriousness of the issue, elements of humor often find their way into his practice.
Hamidi Hadi is regarded as one of the most prominent abstract artists of his generation, and is well-known for his experimental and explorative use of material. Over the years, his practice has formally migrated from pictorial representation of the objective world, into abstraction and the synthesis of complex materials and methods, to describe his emotional and spiritual responses to the world. Hamidi Hadi’s works are a constant experimentation and exploration of materials as he seeks to discover and capture the ephemeral and intangible.
Born in Sungai Petani, Kedah, Choy Chun Wei has made a name for himself for his multiply layered collage work. He is a graduate of Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and Design, London. He is a meticulous artist who executes each of his works painstakingly and takes the time to research and explore each medium before applying it on his work. This video, part of the Malaysian Art Series, sheds light onto Choy Chun Wei’s unique artistic approach towards the evolution of our modern generation.
Chin Kong Yee (B. 1973) graduated from the Central Academy of Art in 1990. He has had an illustrious 25 year journey as an artist, which has seen him traverse the world for inspiration for his work. Chin Kong Yee’s paintings display his continuous search to capture his own experience of a time and place. By combining the present, past and future through a depiction of two perspectives (realistic and unrealistic) his paintings have an exciting, dramatic edge about them that draws the viewer into his space.
Vast, sweeping and meditative landscapes are what artist Chen Wei Meng (B. 1965, Terengganu) is perhaps most well known for. The new fruits of his hard work have taken shape in the form of ‘Musang’s Words’ (2020), a solo exhibition featuring a collection of ink drawings inspired by the mountain structure of Gua Musang itself.
Yau Bee Ling’s body of work came from different periods of her life that are immensely personal and meaningful. Bee Ling’s practice has consistently been an extension of her life’s journey, mimicking the twists and turns of a life lived. Throughout her 25-year career as an artist, each series has always been an evolution from her previous visual language.
