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Dawn Ng, Orchid Islands, 2024
Dawn Ng, Orchid Islands, 2024
Dawn Ng, Orchid Islands, 2024
Dawn Ng, Orchid Islands, 2024
Dawn Ng, Orchid Islands, 2024

Dawn Ng

Orchid Islands, 2024
acrylic paint, dye, ink and sand on wood
70 x 50 x 1.5 cm (each, unframed)
72 x 52 x 5 cm (each, framed)
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An ode to process and fleeting beauty, Ng's body of work began as a study into the articulation of temporality. Rather than relying on numerical terms Ng turns to the...
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An ode to process and fleeting beauty, Ng's body of work began as a study into the articulation of temporality. Rather than relying on numerical terms Ng turns to the most ephemeral material available to her in her native Singapore - ice - and from there has devised an emotive language of creation, destruction, trace and remembrance.

The passage is a cyclical one. Ng assiduously builds blocks of frozen pigment with the skill of a chemist, a painter and a sculptor creating a topographical medley of pigments, watercolours, dyes. The layers build, encrust and stagger, capturing a moment of being and recollecting - crystallised, engrained.

In Orchid Islands, the swirls of pigment are given a last breath as they cling to the paper; the watercolours and dyes leaving first, the acrylic hanging longest. The result is again topographical; we feel we've encountered a slab of quartz or a sulphuric tapestry. Large boulders of pigment are hacked and shattered to form meticulous arrangements of collapsed residue on wood. The result is more akin to a map: avenues, tributaries, ducts connect and swirl in a riot of blooms and cascades.
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