These selected works capture Hazel McIntosh’s brief engagement with Singapore and TAV’s Lorong Gambas’ environment as a site of artistic production. McIntosh lived in Singapore between July 1988 to July 1992. She visited Singapore during the summers of 1982, 1986 and 1987.With the Veils series, this set of works are a reflection of feminist issues and concerns that were current to the artist during that time period. Here, the multifarious significance of the veil as a religious and secular style of dressing is deliberated upon, it serves as “a container for the wearer’s expectations whereas the reality of a situation may be different.” The works were exhibited as part of Women & Their Art, the first all-women artist show at National Museum Art Gallery in 1991 alongside Amanda Heng’s She and Her Dishcover (1991)
