Painting
Dandelion (a lot to offer)
ππ’π―π₯π¦ππͺπ°π― (π’ ππ°π΅ π΅π° π°π§π§π¦π³) 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
Installation
Installation View
Eleven paintings are arranged as an ascending oval spiral, resisting the horizontal linearity of conventional gallery presentation. The two larger gestural works anchor the composition, while smaller paintings are positioned to converse with one... More
Painting
Universal Flux 2 (Spilling Over)
Energy resists containment. In this painting, swirling orbital forms dissolve at their edges, spilling beyond any fixed boundary β rendering not a moment captured, but a condition of constant transformation. The copper and earth tones move through... More
Painting
Universal Flux 3 (Family)
This work was completed in March, as the violence continued, I thought a lot about the separation and reunion of families.
Painting
Wishing Fountain
ππͺπ΄π©πͺπ―π¨ ππ°πΆπ―π΅π’πͺπ― captures the charged instant of water mid-flight β 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
Work by
Freda Tan
Painter
βResponding 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...β [More]