Artsplaining ft. Gwee Li Sui & Assistant Curator Roy Ng
Registration
17 Jan 2025
9–9.45pm
Registration point: National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 3, Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery 1
Free, pre-registration required. Registered attendees will need to show confirmation email.
A casual platform for art advocacy, Artsplaining introduces and fosters art appreciation by engaging individuals from various industries and backgrounds who may not have direct ties to the arts, thus establishing relatability and connections between the art and non-art worlds.
Through thoughtful conversations and witty interpretations, our featured guests reflect on how the works in National Gallery Singapore relate to different industries and non-art spheres. Equal parts offbeat and accessible, this programme is perfect for anyone curious about the visual arts!
In this collaboration between the writer Gwee Li Sui and Assistant Curator Roy Ng, we delve into our special exhibition Teo Eng Seng: We’re Happy. Are You Happy? and discuss how the rawness of the human condition can be expressed.
Roy Ng is Assistant Curator at National Gallery Singapore. He co-curated the exhibitions Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (Dec 2022–Aug 2023) and Nam June Paik: The Future is Now (Dec 2021–Mar 2022). He completed an MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture from Trinity College, University of Oxford.
Gwee Li Sui is a poet, artist, critic and translator. He has seven volumes of verse to date, the most recent being This Floating World. He wrote and illustrated Singapore’s first long-form English graphic novel Myth of the Stone back in 1993. His bestselling non-fiction titles include a poetry guide titled FEAR NO POETRY! and a language companion Spiaking Singlish. He has also translated classic works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Beatrix Potter, the Brothers Grimm, A. A. Milne and George Orwell into Singlish.
