Painting Chiew Sien Kuan • GOOD IDEA ONLINE ART MUSEUM

Chiew Sien Kuan (1965-)

Chiew’s drawings and paintings are personal commentaries on the issues of modernity and rapid urbanisation that affect people’s sense of being, creating altered states of mind. His work is preoccupied with issues of environmentalism, renewal, loss of urban spaces, economic progress and technological development that have inevitably influenced and changed people’s sense of reality. Chiew’s paintings reflection of subconscious minds that are in constant flux, reacting to these changes around us. With broad confident strokes, Chiew draws and paints exuberantly on paper, demonstrating a unique sense of freedom and free-spiritedness in his style of painting. His sculptures are characterised by the use of found objects sourced over a period of time sometimes 10 – 15 years. By formalising the accidental, he probes into the subconscious mind enticing the viewer to re-think and re-examine the subject matter in the work. The seemingly random assemblage of materials may not seem finished, it is constantly a work in progress.

Experience

1986	Diploma in Fine Art, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
1994	BFA, University of Tasmania. Hobart
2005	Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE), Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education, Singapore.
2007	Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE), Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education, Singapore.

Exhibition

2019	“Soul Yield”, Lim Hak Tai Gallery, NAFA, Singapore
2018	‘Motionless Boundary’, Da Xin Private Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2018	‘Motionless Boundary’, Element Art Space, Singapore
2018	Painters, Nagata Private Museum, Onomichi, Japan