Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Freda Tan
Wild
Painting
2026
Oil on stretched canvas
12" x 12"
𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥 is a sister to Dandelion (a lot to offer), returning to the ground level but shifting attention from root to stem. This is the fire phase, the most active of the five transformations: growth that does not proceed in straight lines but spirals, doubles back, and insists. Growth here is not triumph. It is persistence.
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]
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