Signature Art Prize - Singapore Art Museum

This competition is held at the Singapore Art Museum and runs from 15th November 2014 to 21st January 2015.

Press Release to read more. SAM website on Signature Art Prize.

3 Prizes on offer, Grand Prize, Juror's Choice and People's choice award.

No paintings here, but it's not unexpected as most Contemporary Museums are shifting away from paintings and it (painters) gets enough support from the private sector galleries.

Anyway, my top choice is Robert Zhao Renhui's Eskimo wolf trap often quoted in sermons. So please VOTE (for him) and you can vote daily! I'm doing it and so can you! Go Robbie! Best work in this show. I feel he is improving and going into other media and not submitting photographs. This work has much impact and is very visually impactful and pleasing. Also like the way he serrated the knife on the top side of the blade making it look like a red feather in the snow. However, he needs to make his works conceptually more complex and deeper. When (not if) he achieves it, he will be one of the best (if not the best) fine art photographer in Singapore. So please vote!

Other notable mentions.
Golden Teardrop - Arin Runjang
Story of a city - Farida Batool
Custos Cavum - Choe U-Ram

Done the most disservice by the installation of the work:
Letters from a distance - Peng Wei. This work was an installation of a big scroll against the wall, two shelves of works and on the floor on a platform of more works. Because the works have to share space with Farida Batool's long lenticular print work, it is only given two adjoining walls of the room. And the length-wise wall accommodates a corridor opening,thus because of this ,the installation was too stretched out and lost it's impact (go see it and you'll know what i mean).I know the curators have to work within the space given, but seeing how much space other artists are given, like SAM's favourite son Ho Tzu Nyen, who got a giant gallery to himself. (the entire gallery in the Waterloo Wing, level 2). Life is never fair.

So Vote for Robert Zhao!

Points for Collectors: Robert Zhao's is a good artist/photographer. Buy rating if you come across his works. Ho Tzu Nyen, as long as the current SAM curators are around, he will be given air time. Being collected by a museum perceptually adds weight to the artist prestige.