Through painting, I connect the imaginaries of the geological, mythic, and science-fictional to speculative ideas of memory and time. Informed in part by my Chinese-Tamil heritage, my work draws on conceptions of the sublime and metaphysical across Eastern traditions and Western philosophy. Landscape is treated as a site where history, mythology, and projection converge, holding multiple temporal and spatial logics in tension.
Landscape is understood not as a neutral setting but as a constructed form shaped by memory, ideology, and desire. I am drawn to its historicity as both an artistic genre and cultural artefact, while seeking to move beyond representation through processes that shift between observation, archive, and painterly reconfiguration. Within this, landscape operates as a layered perceptual field in which forms remain unstable and are continually reassembled in translation. Geological formations and mythic and science-fictional spatial logics come together in painted space as perception and invention.
My work begins with hiking through remote landscapes. Working primarily with analogue processes such as Polaroids, 35mm film, and sketchbook drawings, I build an evolving archive formed through extended engagement with place and the gradual accumulation of recorded material over time. These function as a pretext for painting. The resulting works shift between recorded and constructed space, held between objective and subjective readings, where landscape remains unresolved, held between pictorial space and time.
Born 1989 Singapore
Lives and Works in London, UK
Education
Chelsea College of Art and Design Foundation Diploma, UAL, 2009 - 2010
BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting - Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, 2010 - 2012