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Youth is no object to volunteering at the Gallery. Four young volunteers—Tay Yu Qing, Jamie Ng, Samantha Rin, Samuel Sim—share their experiences with Ho Shu En (Intern, Community & Access), herself a youth with a passion for art. 7 minute read.
Tropical Fruits (1969) is the largest known still life by Georgette Chen. With fruits in baskets, laid out on the table, and hanging from the ceiling, the work is an experiment in compositional techniques. Get a closer look at Chen’s works and find out how her artistic practice evolved over her decades-long career with our exhibition catalogue and our new video series, "At the Conservator’s Bench". 4 minute read.
In this dialogue with selected directors of the 2020 edition of Painting with Light: Festival of International Films on Art, Kulikar Sotho, Anysay Keola, Sai Naw Kham and Phạm Ngọc Lân discuss the genesis of the Mekong 2030 project, its relation to their artistic practices and the thinking behind their individual films. 14 minute read.
What does a conservator do every day? How do you assess the condition of a painting? Questions on conservation are some of the most frequently asked at the Gallery. Mar Cusso, one of the Gallery’s Paintings Conservators, answers them. 6 minute read.
Throughout the exhibition Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., visitors posed their questions on the show through our social media and front-of-house staff. The shows’ curators respond to a few of your queries in this post.
Every year, curators refresh our two long-term exhibitions, Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century and Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore since the 19th Century, with new artworks. In this post, three of its eight exhibition curators, Clarissa Chikiamco, Lim Qinyi and Cheng Jia Yun answer questions posed to them by docents and front-of-house staff about the ever-changing UOB Southeast Asia Gallery.
Go behind the scenes of opening the Rotunda Library & Archive, from the challenge of re-purposing a heritage space, moving the collections, and establishing the new Collections Search Portal.
Find out how we tag and track artworks in the Gallery using our RFID-enabled artwork management system, and how it helps accountability to the collection and our stakeholders.
Johnny Chen (Registrar) documents the arduous process of shifting Ng Eng Teng's Mother and Child from its original location at Tampines Central Park to its new home by the steps of the Gallery’s City Hall building. 5 minute read.
As a conceptual extension of his Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission SEA STATE 9: proclamation garden, Singapore artist Charles Lim Yi Yong creates a series of podcasts to present alternative viewpoints, stories and soundscapes in the history of land reclamation in Singapore.
Career Day saw nearly 200 tertiary and pre-tertiary students attend introductory sessions by different departments working together in the National Gallery Singapore. The very first event of its kind was organized by Shaun Soh (Manager, Education) who wrote about the experience.
Sopheap Pich’s Cargo is one of the largest artworks in the National Collection. How does a work the size of two 20-foot shipping containers make its way from the artist’s studio in Cambodia to its new home at National Gallery Singapore? Farisya Farid (Senior Executive, Collections Development) details the journey. 5 minute read.
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