“I was drawn to Wallis’ colourful style,” Guey Syuen added during the prizegiving ceremony at Ming Fine Art Gallery in Gurney Paragon Mall, Penang. Izhar’s spray paint and acrylic on canvas work called ‘State of Transience’ The subject was the young English poet Thomas Chatterton, shown dead after poisoning himself with arsenic in 1770.
The original oil on canvas work by Wallis is at Tate Britain in London. The lockdown was coming to an end so life reached out to touch me,” she said of her piece which was painted with oils on a disused circular table top. Being stuck at home and unable to socialise made my world so dull.
“This was how I felt during the movement control order. The scene is a play on human emotions and the snuffing of excitement from one’s life. From an open pane, a butterfly and some flowers creep in. Outside her window, trees abound with colour. Choong about his piece ‘The Wound is Where The Flower Grows’. A face mask lies at the edge of her bed.Ĭhong (left) speaking with Ming Fine Art gallery associate S.H.
Her version depicts herself falling asleep in her room with a mobile phone still dangling from her hand. The 22-year-old fine art student’s ‘Dreaming Encircled by Isolation’ work was based on the 1856 oil on canvas painting ‘The Death of Chatterton’ by English artist Henry Wallis. REIMAGINING a classical painting with contemporary pandemic themes was the stroke of genius that won Choong Guey Syuen the Spotlight 2021 art competition by Penang Art District.
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