Unicorn Tears - Cassandra Koh

This exhibition was held from 25th May to 15th June 2019 over at Your Mother Gallery at Little India.

Cassandra Koh's exhibition was curated by the people at Post Museum. She showed newer works which were much happier and lighter then the works that were shown previously at Peninsula, VADA, Imagini gallery (Mount Pleasant) and currently with Chan+Hori's Singapore Utopia.

These works were much better artistically, her painterly skills and the visual perception of the works were better. Her skills shone through her as she had time to concentrate on painting and the visual end result rather then getting distracted by sticking it to the man.

Points for Collectors: Buy to strong buy rating. Cassandra has kept up with her art practice and hope she continues doing so. 

Catalogue - Various artists

This exhibition was held from 22nd April to 9th June 2019 over at Yeo Workshop at Gillman Barracks.

After putting Yeo Workshop on hiatus to serve her National Service of organising SEA Focus, Audrey is back to doing what she loves and does best - her gallery. This was her introductory exhibition, featuring artists from her stable.

Nice interesting works. Nice to have Yeo Workshop back.

Fyerool Darma

Post Museum

Stephanie Burt

Fyerool Darma

Points for collectors: Fyerool Darma a buy rating. Stephanie Burt hopefully she becomes more active. Post Museum - interesting. They have been around for a while. Hopefully they get into the mainstream system.

Raw Forms - Oneal Parbo and many others

This exhibition was held from 3rd to 12th May 2019 over at Coda Culture at Golden Mile Complex.

Seelan Palay really runs very short exhibitions. But short exhibtions mean more shows, more sales and self sustainability. Important when you see the attrition rate of galleries. Went to Tanglin Shopping Centre today, there are a lot of new galleries while a lot of other galleries have closed down. Nice and exciting industry to get into but not easy to survive.

Anyway the show featured many Singapore artists. Oneal Parbo was a young artist that caught our eye. His abstract works were very good in terms of visual perception. Now he just has to blend in the background and paint more for the works to show more maturity and finesse.

Jeremy Hiah

Alvin Ong

Oneal Parbo

Chen Yanyun

Jon Chan

Points for collectors: Oneal Parbo - Buy Rating but with any young artist hopefully he doesn't disappear into the shadows. Jon Chan, Chen Yanyun, Alvin Ong and Jeremy Hiah also showed works there. Like them too. They get buy ratings too.

On/Out of Paper - Ashley Yeo and others

This exhibition was held from 4th May to 2nd June 2019 at Mizuma Gallery over at Gillman Barracks.

This was a group show of paper works. We will focus on our local artist Ashley Yeo. She showed her paper cuts. She has definitely shown improvement from her older works. More complex and intricate (not that it wasn't enough in the first place) and also better presentation of the works.

PQ's comments: we also loved her meticulousness, which extends beyond the work of art to how it's presented, like the material, shape and colour of the pedestals.

Love these works.

Point for collectors: Strong Buy Rating. Like with any paper works, there's always a concern about conservability, but buy anyway.

Soft Strong - Masuri

This exhibition was held from 19th April to 27th April 2019 over at Coda Culture at Golden Mile Complex.

Masuri is a young chap. He did really nice works here where he used hard and strong materials to represent items which you expect to be soft.

Really great works.

Points for collectors: Masuri - strong buy rating. Prices were very reasonable. Hope he maintains his passion and continues improving from here.

Species of Texts and Spots - Joanne Pang

This exhibition was held from 13th April to 7th July 2019 over at SPRMRT at Cluny Court.

It's been a long time since I have written. Have to catch up quickly.

Joanne showed more of her ink and pigment works on fabric, silk and paper.

Nice works. Still abstracted works of spots and blotches. This time she included some symbols and lines.

Interesting works. Monochromatic or rather colour isn't too important here unlike what's she's doing now on IG, which are more colourful.

Points for collectors: I would give her a buy rating. Nice palatable works. Earlier works have a bit of a Chinese-art-feel, possibly because of the use of Chinese ink. Things which people like. Hopefully with the use of colours and the development/ maturity of her abstraction, she can maintain her appeal.