One of the most prolific and talented artists in Singapore, Ng Eng Teng produced more than 300 sculptures over a span of 40 years. These included large-scale public sculptures to life-sized and smaller sculptures. His art education started in Singapore as a painting student at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), before continuing his studies in industrial pottery in North Staffordshire College of Technology, England. He went on to study studio pottery in Farnham School of Art and subsequently became a designer in a pottery factory in Ireland for a few years. These various stints equipped him with the necessary technical vocabulary to deal with the 3-dimensional form.Ng, who dealt primarily with the human figure and humanistic themes in his art, believed that humanity began with the family foundation and the dynamic relationships between the parents and their children. ‘Mother and Twins’ is another example of his long-standing investigation into the mother-child relationship. Here the anatomy is reduced into an S-shaped curve, reminiscent of the umbilical cord that sustains a child during pregnancy.
