Closed the year on a great note with two modelling workshops — one was with teachers held at the National Gallery and the other was at the Institute of Mental Health with staff and patients. Both workshops had very enthusiastic participants eager to learn the technique of making small models using a wire infrastructure and clay. This is my method for making small maquettes that I later enlarge into life-size public sculptures. Continue reading Workshops in 2019

In October 2018, the sculpture, Once A Tree II, was featured in a stage performance at the Yong Siew Toh Music Conservatory, NUS. The performance was a 25-minute opera by Claudio Monteverdi entitled Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. The dancers … Continue reading Conservatory drama

fahcheong was NAFA Artist-in-residence in August 2018. During that time, he conducted a stone-carving class for the Nanyang Academy art students at the Bencoolen campus. For many students, it was their first time carving stone, and so the softer travertine was used. Using his work Terribile Quotidian as an example, fahcheong gave the students some food for thought. How do you come up with an idea for a sculpture? Students submitted their design ideas and these were critiqued. Then they learned to translate their designs into 3D reality through carving with hammer and chisel and grinding the stone. And finally there … Continue reading NAFA Artist-in-residence

In August 2018, fahcheong held a stone-carving masterclass for practising artists, organised by the Singapore Sculpture Society. Enthusiastic participants gleaned much from the workshop, as fahcheong shared with them tips and techniques and gave them a hands-on lesson on how to turning raw stone into sculpture.   Continue reading Stone-carving masterclass

It was a long time in the making but finally Chong Fahcheong’s latest sculpture, Hey, Ah Chek! has found its home. You will find Ah Chek, Ah May and Ah Boy on the departure level of Changi Airport’s Terminal 4. When commissioned to create a local, Peranakan sculpture for Changi’s latest terminal, fahcheong typically dipped into his memories of old Singapore and came up with this vignette of grandmother (or mother, it matters not) and a young boy hailing a trishawman to take them home after a morning’s marketing. (No guesses as to who fahcheong was thinking when he sculpted … Continue reading Hey, Ah Chek!

— in Landmark magazine, December 2017, publication of Far East Organization Continue reading First Generation celebrated

Well, that’s what The Guardian calls this gallery of pictures, From Ai WeiWei’s Dog to Indian Wall Painting, and I am pleased to see that my kampong kids aka First Generation are in such great company. This is the link to the Guardian webpage. https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/gallery/2017/mar/31/ai-weiweis-dog-indian-wall-painting-great-public-art-in-pictures Continue reading Great public art

So pleased to be able to say that there is a new addition to my public works — this is Moongate, installed at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay. The Moongate has been in my blood ever since my youthful sojourn in Penang when I saw it in the botanical gardens. I have worked and reworked the idea over many years. Why? It speaks to me of journeys, circles of thought, cycles of life, thresholds to cross … a simple form that belies the complexities conjured. Well, here are pictures of some versions of mine, including the Moongate at the Gardens … Continue reading Moongates

Got a phone call that illustrates how small our planet is becoming, thanks to the internet. Tony wants my views on public art. Click on the link for the interview. Berlin interview   Continue reading Berlin calling!