Dawn Koh is not your typical artist. A self‑professed “nerd” who excelled academically as a student in CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School, Koh had dropped art as a subject to better cope in the highly competitive learning environment. “I was so miserable,” she recalls, as she chats with Tatler in her cosy attic studio housed on the third storey of her new family home in the Thomson area.
The irony is not lost on her. Koh recounts how, from the age of three, she had been “obsessed” with fashioning objects from paper—roses, animals and fantasy characters from her imagination—to the point that a second classroom had to be opened to display all her works of art during her
