Chan Davies Art Prize Exhibition - Jordi Fornies and Shirly Koh

This double bill feature was for the two winners of the Chan Davies Art Prize 2016. Jordi Fornies for the MFA and Shirly Koh for BFA.

It is held from 5th April to 30th April 2017 over at Chan+Hori Contemporary over at Gillman Barracks.

Jordi's show was called Sonance: Sound as Body, Sound as Architecture.

Shirly's show was called Lighter than Sunshowers.

Must say I am quite impressed with Jordi's works. He presented quite a few impressive bronze sculptures and paintings with resin sculptures attached to it.

Shirly Koh's drawings with watercolour were quite weak. Think conceptually it must have been interesting, but the visual aspect is very lacking. The paint was also applied very thinly and faint, think she wanted to achieve that effect. But if one were to hang it and not hide it from the world, I really think it will fade away after years.....

Jordi's work

Shirly's work

Point for collectors: Jordi is a buy. Well rounded artist. But not sure of his 'branding' because this is the first time I have come across him, although he is based in Sg for a few years already. Shirly Koh is a UOB POY awardee for 2016, but really who bothers about the UOB award anymore. So I would give her a wait-and-see rating. Saw a red dot for each artist. So someone agrees with me and another not.

Distance - Various artists

This exhibition is held from 15th April 2017 to 27th May 2017 at Ota Fine Arts at Gillman Barracks.

It's a group show featuring 4 artists. The Singaporean Artist invited to show is Geraldine Kang.

She showed photographs of Sungei Serangoon being developed into a residential area.

Didn't quite show her skill in this series. Not really fresh or eye catching. But I believe that this series is slightly older, 2014?

Have to keep on watching her.

Points for collectors: Continue to watch.

Affordable Art Fair April 2017

Hello.

Slacking as usual. But time for an update.

AAF was on from 7th to 9th April 2017 at the Pit Building. A very small fair this time, not many galleries. I think only 3 paddocks on 1 floor.

Pizza Queen was happy with the variety of the works on show at the various booths.

Was ok I guess. Standard was ok but could be better since the price ceiling of works is now $15k. Not many local artists on show as compared to other years.

Still worth to go and look see. Not too crowded if you compare it to previous years (don't count the preview night).