Frame size: 72 x 92 cm
Born in Singapore in 1955, Lim Tiong Ghee is a self-taught artist renowned for his abstract collages. He was Category Winner (Representational), UOB Painting of the Year Competition in 1984 with his ‘Reflection’ watercolour painting, and in 1989 Lim received the Competition’s Top Award for his wrapping paper collage ‘From the Turtledove’.In Lim’s earliest collages, delicate figurative images of tropical flora, luscious fruits, and Chinese delicacies are predominant. As Lim honed his technical skills and style, he continued to draw inspiration from his immediate surroundings. With this work, Lim has moved away from his tentative decorative collages, exploring with less inhibition the surface and medium further. There is bolder interaction between the layered paper shapes and colours, creating a stronger pictorial narrative. At the same time, there is an indication of the artist’s gradual awareness of and progression towards reducing the objects to abstract forms.
