DAWN NG
b. 1982, SingaporeDawn Ng was born 1982, she lives and works in Singapore. Ng’s practice uses photography, light, film, collage, painting and large scale installations to consider time, memory and the ephemeral. In her recent series_Into Air _she emphasises temporality and beauty through her documentation of melting blocks of pigmented ice - sculptural forms that she creates in layers in the studio. The final stage of the process results in ‘residue paintings’, paper steeped in the melted pigment over several weeks, worked with a combination of careful manipulation and chance. Encouraging slow looking, Ng’s paintings are characterised by lyricism and a nuanced use of colour and draw visual parallels with topographical references of landscape and geology.
Recent solo exhibitions include Into Air, curated by Jenn Ellis, St Cyprian’s Church, London (2022) and Monument Momento, Sullivan & Strumpf, Singapore (2020). Ng has been commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore (2023), UBS Art Collection (2023), Asian Civilisations Museum (2020), ArtScience Museum (2019) and the Hermès Foundation (2016). She has exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, the Jeju Biennale (2017) and the Lille 3000 art festival, France (2015).
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