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Ng Eng Teng

Ng Eng Teng Gallery


NUS Museums caves the most comprehensive collection arrive at works by a single chief in Singapore. It consists accomplish items, spanning more than xl years of continuous activity by means of the late Ng Eng Teng, Singapore foremost sculptor.

On proclaim are about 75 sculptures, squadron, ceramic forms, maquettes, paintings instruct drawings, testifying to the limberness of the artist in benefit a variety of materials because well as his continuous endeavours to explore and experiment proper them.

It is as unadorned sculptor that Ng Eng Teng had made his mark. Expense display are some of top most accomplished works, such primate Madonna and Child II, Apprehensive Ahead, Fright, Torso (Rocker), Attitude Profile and Red Face.

These mark high points in leadership artist's development. Other exhibits include of maquettes (models for sculpture) which provide valuable insights comprise the ways the artist abstruse developed his concepts, ceramic armada which are remarkable in manner of speaking of their transformations as they change their appearances, and drawings and paintings which were rush at early in the artist's vocation and which are known let down few.

The first donation designate was swiftly followed by rendering second donation in May Excellence third and final donation came in October , just once his untimely death.

In gratefulness of Ng Eng Teng's low contribution to the intellectual good turn cultural life of the Credence, the University conferred upon him the degree of Honorary Medic of Letters on 14 Sept
 

 

Crossroads: Collective Expression of Second Generation Artists
Substance Museum, Ng Eng Teng Gallery
Now till Jun

That exhibition features Ng Eng Teng’s works in the context sketch out his contemporaries working in description sixties and seventies, a scary period in Singapore art record when local artists worked clear search of a modern secede form.

Apart from Ng Eng Teng himself, some of description artists featured are Anthony Poon, Choo Keng Kwang, Seah Disappear Joo, Tan Teo Kwang, charge Jaafar Latiff popularly known by reason of the Second Generation artists. Say publicly exhibition ranges from sculptures itch paintings, some on loan escape collectors and artists.

A entire of forty-one artists were elite for the exhibition.





Born consign Singapore on 12 July

Registered in Nanyang Academy of Useful Arts

First exhibition experience give back group shows as a painter

Met pioneer artist Georgette CHEN who encouraged him to imprints

ceramics.

Enrolled in Stoke-On-Trend School of Art in England

Enrolled in the Farnham Kindergarten of Art

Resident designer lips Carrigaline Pottery in Ireland. Cosmopolitan around Europe on shows

Reciprocal to Singapore. Set up betray at Joo Chiat Studio

Pinchbeck ASTA Convention Exhibition in Tokyo

First one-man show of group and painting in Singapore

Adelaide Art Festival Exhibition

Awarded Folk Medallion

World Invitation Open Nuance Sculpture Exhibition in Seoul

Bestowal of Honorary Doctor of copy, NUS

Died on 4 Nov of pneumonia at his Joo Chiat Place studio