Image size: Mount: H 50 x W 124.5 cm,
Frame size: 55 x 130 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’.The recurrence of flora as subject matter in Lim’s work is due to his appreciation of their growth process and varied abundance. His affinity for this growth pattern extends to include the paper dyeing process, which Lim does himself to obtain an extensive customised palette of dyed coloured papers. An admirer of Cultural Medallion recipient Goh Beng Kwan – an artist whose name is synonymous with the advent and development of collage and mixed media abstract art in Singapore – Lim has with this collage abandoned all figurative references, arriving at his own signature abstract style.
