A review of Yee I-Lann’s book Fluid World. ‘A multi-layered, multi-textural, malleable, plastic world containing multiple narratives’
WANTED: Someone to restore Arteri and give it 2nd life. Interested? Email: mail.sharonchin.com
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: book, Fluid World, photography, Rogue Art, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Yee I-Lann A review of Yee I-Lann’s book Fluid World. ‘A multi-layered, multi-textural, malleable, plastic world containing multiple narratives’
| Filed under: Gallery | Tags: dendongeng, jai, jalaini abu hassan, pantun, syair, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
Who would have guessed that one of Malaysia’s pre-eminent figurative painter is also literati at heart? Jai ventures into poetry in his recent solo exhibition.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: batik, maya, philosophy, shaman, tano, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
Knowing that VWFA featured new batik works by Greek artist Tano, one expected that strange and irrelevant combination when West infiltrates East. Instead, Bharti Lalwani found quite the contrary.
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: Jason Wee, photography, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
By Eva McGovern
A Very Belated Exhibition Review: With no land in sight audiences ask where is the Art? Jason Wee at Valentine Willie Fine Art 6-23 May 2009 challenges the viewer to think about borders, memory and the definition of photography but are they up to the task?
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: Abstract, Abstraction, colour, form, Liew Kwai Fei, Minimalism, painting, space, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
By Eva McGovern
Review: Liew Kwai Fei’s Paintings for All Ages / Paintings with Extended Space @ No 19 Jalan Berangan
Liew Kwai Fei’s abstract conceptualisations around colour theory, the purity of form, and objectivity.
| Filed under: Essays | Tags: Ahmad Mashadi, Amanda Heng, creative industries, Curating Lab: 100 Objects (Remixed), John Low, june yap, Lim Kok Boon, National University Museum Singapore, Singapore, Tang Da Wu, The Air Conditioned Recession, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
By June Yap
Two different exhibitions opened on the same evening and venue early August 2009: The Air Conditioned Recession: A Singapore Survey organised by Valentine Willie Fine Art, and Curating Lab: 100 Objects (Remixed) organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum.
| Filed under: News | Tags: Valentine Willie Fine Art, whose who 
by Alex Yong
Rock Kaka: Fahmi Reza, Callen Tham, Fairuz Sulaiman, Saiful Razman and Vincent Leong, 27 May – 13 June 2009 @ Valentine Willie Fine Art
Doesn’t kaka mean ‘poop’ in French? Enjoy some scenes from the 27 May opening, and make sure you catch this cool shit show. Guess who was there, looming underfoot, and larger than life?
| Filed under: Reviews | Tags: collage, Control, drawing, Female, Nadiah Bamadhaj, Paper, State, Valentine Willie Fine Art 
By Eva McGovern
How aware are we of the influences of State urban planning on the creation of identity? Like it or not the positioning of infrastructure – housing, hospitals, schools, transport and government networks all inform individual and public consciousness. Where we live, where children go to school, where we shop and who we do all of this with is a carefully crafted construct designed by public and private individuals.