2 main type of sculpture in Singapore

1. Public sculpture in Singapore
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created
by shaping or combining hard materials
and an important form of public art. And it is a
witness the of landmark.
I am
representation of
Singapore … every
one want me
inside their
photograph

2. What is sculpture?
• Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork
• created by shaping or combining hard materials.
• Common Methods
Materials may be worked by removal such as
carving; or they may be assembled such as by
welding , hardened such as by firing, or molded
or cast. Surface decoration such as paint may be
applied. Sculpture has been described as one of
the plastic arts because it can involve the use of
materials that can be moulded or modulated.

3. 2 Main type of sculpture in
Singapore
Realism Vs Abtraction

4. The Merlion
• Artist: Lim Nang Seng
• Patron:
• Singapore Tourist Promotion
Board (now Singapore Tourism
Board)
• Date Created:
• 15 September 1972
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 1972
• Current Location:
• Merlion Park II
• entry:

5. Realism Sculpture
known as direct representation of object or
subject in 3-Dimension forms.
Realism,….? What is that?

6. Another Day Artist's statement
Another Day immortalises the coolie - that archetype of
the labourer or workman of bygone days. Historically,
coolies were bonded workmen who arrived in colonial
Singapore to labout under inhospitable conditions.
Many were assigned to work at the waterfront where
trade was fast and furtious.
Chong's 'coolies' are more 'recent' manual workers who
were still in circulation in the 1970s and 1980s, working
at the warehouses and bumboats before urban
redevelopment transformed the Singapore River.
Alamak… what is the
• This is the label for the work as installed in the sculpture doing,
Singapore National Library, in May 2011.} here ?
• Chong Fah Cheong
b. 1946, Singapore
• Another Day (The Coolies)
2000
Bronze
150 x 160 x 130 cm
Collection of the artist

7. First Generation
Artist:
Chong Fah Cheong
Patron:
Far East Organization and Singapore Tourism
Board
First Placed in Singapore:
2000
Current Location:
Singapore River, behind Fullerton Hotel
• Very site specific, though in a way that
opens an interesting contrast: the
sculpture shows a behavior that would
not be possible in this place, in so
many ways.
• Hygiene, public order, etc... This
implied transgression balances out the
nostalgia in the work

8. Pedas Pedas
• Artist: Kumari Nahappan
• Patron:
• National Museum of Singapore
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 2006
• Current Location:
• National Museum of Singapore, Fort Canning
Entrance
• Label Text of label:
• Kumari Nahappan
Pedas Pedas
2006
2m L x 4m W x 3.8m H
Bronze with Wax Covering
National Museum of Singapore

9. Singapore Botanic Garden -
Sculptures
• This work of art is created by Polish
sculptor Karol Badyna .

10. Abstract Sculpture
known as simplifying or reducing the basic forms
in representation of object or subject.

11. Samsui Women
• Artist: Liu Jilin
• Patron:
• Urban Redevelopment
Authority
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 1999
• Current Location:
• URA Centre, facing the
Maxwell Road Hawker
Centre
'From the Sansui Province, China, we emigrate young and frugal,
To the Lion City in Nanyang, we labour and struggle.
To seek employment and fortune for our families
We toil and sweat and witness the building
Of Singapore, our pride and future.'
The figures, carved from solid dusky-pink granite with rough textured finishing, reflects
the hardship and perseverance of these tough women during the 1950's and 1960's.

12. Mother and Child
• Artist: Ng Eng Teng 黄荣庭
• Patron:
• Far East Organization
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 1980
• entry:
• One of the most familiar works of public
art in Singapore, it stood for more than
twenty years on a busy Orchard Rd
pedestrian corner. It seems that recently it
moved up the road to rest in front of the
Orchard Parade Hotel, so not so far away.

13. Living World
• Artist: Ju Ming
• Patron:
• funded by TIBS, for Singapore National Museum centennial celebrations
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 1987
• Current Location:
• in front of the Singapore Art Museum, Bras Basah Rd
• entry:

14. Reclining Figure
• Artist: Henry Moore
• Patron:
• OCBC Bank, at the insistence of
I.M. Pei
• Date Created:
• 5 January 1938
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 1983
• Current Location:
• OCBC Bank Headquarters

15. Pioneering Spirit (also known as Vitality of
the Forerunner)
• Artist: Aw Tee Hong
欧世鸿
• Patron:
• Singapore MRT
Corporation
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 1988
• Current Location:
• Raffles Place
• entry:

16. Affinity
• Artist: Anthony Poon 方谨顺
• Patron:
• Housing and Development Board
(HDB)
• First Placed in Singapore:
• 2004
• Current Location:
• HDB Headquarters, Toa Payoh

17. Okay
• Singapore Expo
1999
• Victor experimented with various poses to make a dramatic pageant where five human figures
represented the fingers of a hand making the ‘OK’ sign. This work had its strength not in the story that he
has enacted, but in the construction of an energetic visual piece with playful connotations. This sculpture
was commissioned through Art 2, even before Victor graduated from his RMIT course.