Eng Tow—the sixth sense (Something New Must Turn Up series)

Eng Tow is an interdisciplinary artist whose works merge the disciplines of fine art, craft and design. This catalogue traces Tow’s artistic navigation through life, highlighting key shifts in her practice from methodical fabric constructions to cast, collaged and painted abstractions. The natural world is a significant influence on Tow, and her works offer an insight into nature’s unseen energies. Eng Tow—the sixth sense is part of the Something New Must Turn Up series which offers a comparative perspective of how artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore critically engaged with the conditions of multiculturalism, developmentalism and modernisation through ground-breaking explorations of media.

Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Author Biography: Lim Shujuan is Curator at the National Gallery Singapore.
Language: English
Country of Origin: Singapore
Page count: 144
Binding: Paperback
Search words: Eng Tow, abstract art, fabric art, collage, Singapore