Artwork Collection

01 For Jurying Consideration

Responding to global crisis and the violences of displacement, my thesis work employs oil painting to visualize universal flux as both philosophical principle and lived reality. This body of works combine abstract and representational imagery sourced from symbolic vocabularies shared across cultures: fire, earth, metal, water, wood. At the heart of this inquiry, my thesis captures intentional moments of simultaneous presence and honours the expansive relationality that makes us whole.

fire wood metal water earth

Painting

Votive

𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 considers the metal element as both force and offering — order and chaos held in a single falling gesture. Coins descend through water, caught in the directionality of gravity yet suspended in paint, neither arrived nor lost. Across... More

Painting

Dandelion (a lot to offer)

𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳) depicts the near-cosmopolitan organism that has become a universal core memory while critiquing the idea of presence and control. Viewed from ground level, the composition implicates the colonial... More

Painting

Wishing Fountain

𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 captures the charged instant of water mid-flight — neither falling nor risen, suspended at the threshold of its own turning. Water has carried liminal meaning across millennia: a boundary between worlds, a medium for... More

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Arriving

𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 traces the wood element at its most vital — the exuberant, unforced emergence that pulls life out of winter and into form. The composition does not depict arrival as destination but as orientation. Wood carries the quality of... More

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Canopy

𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘺 attends to the journey itself — not as passage from one place to another, but as the site where all elements converge. Light fractures through canopy and falls as shadow onto ground, each patch a fleeting negotiation between wood and... More

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Artist Statement

Artist Statement (220 words)

Work by

Freda Tan

Painter

“Responding to current global crises and the violences of displacement, this body of work captures intentional moments of simultaneous presence and honours the expansive relationality that makes us...” [More]