Homegrown and award-winning artist Quek Kiat Sing sees art as the perfect medium to communicate and connect people of different backgrounds. She uses ink painting to illustrate scenes of daily life in Singapore, giving a fresh perspective on how the traditional Chinese medium can be brought into the present.
While her favorite subject matters include the lotus ponds, people and places in Singapore, the part-time lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) paints small animals too. Quek’s upcoming solo exhibition titled, ‘Overcoming’ has rabbits as her main subject to celebrate the next lunar year of the rabbit. As