Earlier this year, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Singapore’s contemporary art scene is losing ground to Hong Kong due to a downbeat art market, expensive rent and artworks. Mainstay art fair Art Stage Singapore has shrunk from 170 galleries in 2016 to 84 this year, while postponing its annual Jakarta edition next year. This follows Affordable Art Fair returning with a single edition a year while the Singapore Contemporary Art Show pulled out this year, almost as if it was ne

Relying on archival photographs of Chinese coolies, Singapore artist May Oon rendered her version of these photographs using oil and charcoal, presenting 14 new works that pay tribute to the unnamed immigrants who helped build Singapore in her latest solo exhibition TIME/OUT at Goshen Art Gallery.

At the National Museum of Singapore's Glass Rotunda: Story of the Forest and Singapore, Very Old Tree

It is not uncommon to find construction sites all around Singapore. As a millennial, I am fortunate to live in a city that reaps the hard work of the older generation in advancing the economy. In tandem, my generation bears witness to the rapid transformation of built environments, and how this plays an integral role to the growth of our country.

“Sometimes I tell ‘Yellow… It’s you… you don’t go to the canvas’. They are like human beings. I communicate with the colours. Even if I am not communicating with people while at work, I fight with colours.”

In areas where art and design cross-pollinate (when designers are artists too), what comes to the fore is a revealing thought process—at which juncture can design be deemed art?