Dawn Ng
Works
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Archipelago in Blue, 2024
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Orchid Islands, 2024
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Marapi, 2024
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It was a White Crane it was a Helpless Thing Upon a Red Stain and an Arrow in its Wing, 2023
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Music When the Lights Go Out, 2023
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Oh I Could Hide Beneath the Wings of the Bluebird as She Sings (Triptych), 2023
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Waterfall VIII, 2023
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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, 2023
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Give Me Land Lots of Land Under Starry Skies Above, 2023
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Into Air, 2022
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There is a Window in My Eye, 2023
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A Piece of Sky, 2022
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MERRY GO ROUND, 2020
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PERFECT STRANGER, 2020
Video
Biography
Dawn Ng was born in 1982 and lives and works in Singapore. Ng’s practice uses photography, light, film, collage, painting and large-scale installations to consider time, memory and the ephemeral. In her recent series Into Air she emphasises temporality and beauty through her documentation of melting blocks of pigmented ice, sculptural forms that she creates in layers in the studio. The final stage of the process results in ‘Ash’ or ‘residue’ paintings - paper is steeped in the melted pigment over several weeks and the result is a new surface, a combination of careful manipulation and chance. Encouraging slow looking, Ng’s works is characterised by lyricism and a nuanced use of colour and draws visual parallels with topographical references of landscape and geology.
Recent solo exhibitions include Kate MacGarry, London (2023); Into Air, curated by Jenn Ellis, St Cyprian’s Church, London (2022) and Monument Momento, Sullivan & Strumpf, Singapore (2020). Ng has been commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore (2023); UBS Art Collection (2023); Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore (2020); ArtScience Museum, SIngapore (2019) and the Hermès Foundation (2016). She has exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, Australia (2024); Jeju Biennale, South Korea (2017); Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (2015) and the Lille 3000 art festival, France (2015).
Recent solo exhibitions include Kate MacGarry, London (2023); Into Air, curated by Jenn Ellis, St Cyprian’s Church, London (2022) and Monument Momento, Sullivan & Strumpf, Singapore (2020). Ng has been commissioned by the National Gallery Singapore (2023); UBS Art Collection (2023); Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore (2020); ArtScience Museum, SIngapore (2019) and the Hermès Foundation (2016). She has exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, Australia (2024); Jeju Biennale, South Korea (2017); Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (2015) and the Lille 3000 art festival, France (2015).
Press
Exhibitions
Events
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Frieze London
Dawn Ng 9 - 13 October 2024Kate MacGarry is delighted to announce a solo presentation of works by Dawn Ng at Frieze London. The presentation encompasses a new series of Residue...Read more -
Art Basel
Rana Begum, Marcus Coates, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Dawn Ng, Renee So & Francis Upritchard 13 - 16 June 2024Booth L3Read more -
Frieze London
Peter Liversidge, Goshka Macuga, Peter McDonald, Florian Meisenberg, Grace Ndiritu, Dawn Ng and Francis Upritchard 11 - 15 October 2023