Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Kapuas Hulu
2025
Charcoal on paper set in wood and rattan screen
184 x 246 x 4cm
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Uttar Pradesh
2025
Wood, Plantation Chair, Rattan Canes
76 x 190 x 79 cm
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Kapuas Hulu
(close-up) 2025
Charcoal on paper set in wood and rattan screen
184 x 246 x 4cm
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Uttar Pradesh
(close-up) 2025
Wood, Plantation Chair, Rattan Canes
76 x 190 x 79 cm
Body Translations; Material Transformations 2024
Rattan, mild steel weldings of text from Audre Lorde's "The Cancer Journals", Japanese denim
A work-in-progress movement study performance collaboration by Sonia Kwek, Marc Khoo and Yanyun Chen, Kelysha Cheah binte Mohamed Kassim and Lenette Lua of National Gallery Singapore, held on 7th December 2024. Photographs courtesy of National Gallery Singapore and Joseph Nair.
Paper Planes 2024
Charcoal drawing on paper
4 panels, 75.2cm by 215.2cm by 9cm each
Private Commission
Risk: Last Laugh 2023
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Risk: Ever Sight 2022
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Risk: Rage 2021
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Risk: Disappearance 2020
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Seen, Screen, Scatter 2021
STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks
Silence, healing 2021
Mulberry charcoal and bark on
STPI handmade paper with watermarks
Whisper, mulberry dream 2021
Mulberry charcoal on
STPI handmade paper with watermark
The Necessity for Departures 2024
Hardground etching, spit bite aquatint, offset lithography and chalk on STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks
The Necessity for Departures 2024
Hardground etching, spit bite aquatint, offset lithography and chalk on STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks
A changing stream 2024
Mulberry charcoal and bark on
STPI handmade paper with watermarks
Paper spine 2021
STPI handmade paper with watermark
a gentle caress 2021
Charcoal on paper, aquatint and burnishing
Life is Elsewhere 25 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper
Life is Elsewhere 24 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper
Life is Elsewhere 24 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper
All the flowers I didn't pick, all the lives I didn't live 2023
Charcoal on aluminum framed with acrylic, 180 x 120 cm
Komorebi Coral 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Plumed Serpent 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Possession 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Terrestrial 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Fragility 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 34cm x 34cm
Soft Spaces 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 25cm x 34cm
Flux 2025
Charcoal on paper
40cm by 56cm
Un-named 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 54cm x 36cm
Un-Titled 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 54cm x 36cm
The Thought Visits You 2020
Photographed by Tom White
100% Habotai Silk edition of 5, 180cm x 20cm
The Thought Visits You 2020
100% Habotai Silk edition of 5, 180cm x 20cm
Scar Writings 2024
62 mild steel slip weldings, red wire, wood table
120cm by 40cm by 100cm
Scar Writings (detail) 2024
62 mild steel slip weldings, red wire, wood table
120cm by 40cm by 100cm
Scars: I felt very self conscious, inferior.
I hid it like an ostrich, if no one see, no one asks.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: They were the size of raisins
After surgery, they looked like globe grapes
The seeded kind.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: I used to cover it with a plaster
when I wore short sleeves.
I didn’t want people to ask me what it was.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: 没浮起来,自然的清掉了。
只留下一条红线。
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: 我打了七只针。
痒的话,就用冰。
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: I tried to slam my head into a pillow,
missed, landed on the table instead.
There was so much blood!
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: All I remember was the whiteness
of a bone sticking out of my arm.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scar: She once told me that, with that mark,
I’d be identifiable as a corpse.
2018 Mild Steel 30cm by 30cm
Scars: Gold #1
2018 Gold leaf on mild steel
Scars: Gold #2
2018 Gold leaf on mild steel
Scars: Legs
2018 Charcoal and chalk on mild steel
On our backs speak a history 2024
charcoal drawing on mild steel
180cm by 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us (full set) 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns (Detail) 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns (Detail) 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Girl - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Two standing lanterns, teak hand-made table, bridal gown, dowry basket, scissors, thread, red fabric, wedding dried fruits, red packets, gold cards, bridal lamps, red bulbs, teapot, tea cups, spoons ; Installation
Bride - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
16 calligraphy lanterns, red bulbs, three camphor chests, three charcoal and chalk drawings on wood, red laminate ; Installation
Wife - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Lantern, teak chairs, red ribbons ; Installation
Mother - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Charcoal and chalk on wood, teak frame, lanterns, clogs, red bulbs, drawing dimensions 180cm by 80cm ; Installation
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Women in Rage Yanyun Chen and Sara Chong 2019
Single channel animation, 4K, 5 min
Mother - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry (Detail) 2019
Charcoal and chalk on wood, teak frame, lanterns, clogs, red bulbs ; Installation
Constructing Mementos : Nation States II
Yanyun Chen (with Alex Scollay) 2021
Frame: 100cm x 30cm
Screen: 30cm x 20cm
MP4, 1280x800 resolution
approximately 2.5 minutes loop
Constructing Mementos : Nation States I
Yanyun Chen (with Alex Scollay) 2021
Frame: 100cm x 30cm
Screen: 30cm x 20cm
MP4, 1280x800 resolution
approximately 2.5 minutes loop
This line is false no.1 2020
Charcoal on Paper mounted on aluminium
150cm by 60cm
This line is false no.2 2020
Charcoal on Paper mounted on aluminium
150cm by 60cm
Complex Dialogues 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 55.5cm x 32.5cm
The truth lies in fact 2020
Alex Scollay and Yanyun Chen
single channel animation, 4K, 5 min
I am lying, no.3 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm
I am lying, no.2 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm
I am lying, no.1 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm
Flower Flights 2018
limited 500 edition book
Variations and Variables I II III IV 2019
Charcoal print on Cotton Panama Fabric
140cm x 500cm
Veins, Grains and Striae 2024
127cm by 137cm
Charcoal on paper mounted on aluminium di-bond, tembusu wood, pyrography
Bank of Singapore collection
Of Human Bondage 2018
Charcoal and chalk on wood
130cm x 110cm
Skin Stories 2019
Charcoal, white chalk, gold leaf and primer on wood
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 1 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 4 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 3 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 2 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Wingspan II 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 40cm x 110cm
Wingspan I 2018
Charcoal on linen, 40cm x 110cm
Skin Stories 2019
Charcoal, white chalk, gold leaf and primer on wood
Flower Flights II 2018
Charcoal on wood, 110cm x 40cm
Flower Flights I 2018
Charcoal on wood, 110cm x 40cm
Clouds II 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 30cm x 40cm
Clouds I 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 30cm x 40cm
Flower Pile 2017
charcoal on paper, 90cm by 90cm
春在心中 四季盛开 2018
charcoal on paper
Words by Liang Wern Fook; 字 梁文福
Calligraphy by Yong Gee Lin; 写 杨如莲
Rise and Fall 2017
Charcoal on paper, 100cm x 55cm
Poppy Wall 2017
Charcoal on paper, 100cm x 50cm
Tall Poppies 2016
Nitram Charcoal on Fabriano Roma paper, 45cm by 105cm
Wind 2016
charcoal on paper, 54.5cm by 21cm
Study of the last goodbye 2017
charcoal on paper, 19cm by 47cm
Defiance 2016
Charcoal on paper, 45cm by 45cm
Flowers I 2014
Charcoal on paper, 63cm by 63cm
Flowers II 2014
Charcoal on paper, 66cm by 82cm
Flowers III 2014
Charcoal on paper
Flowers IV 2014
Charcoal on paper, 51cm by 76cm
Dorian Gray 2015
charcoal on paper
Peony 2015
Charcoal on paper, 39cm by 65cm
Flowers VII 2015
Charcoal on paper, 66cm by 82cm
In bed with the King and Queen 2015
Charcoal on paper
Flowers VIII 2016
Charcoal on paper, 56cm by 56cm
Flowers IX 2016
Charcoal on paper, 58cm by 58cm
Flowers X 2016
Charcoal on paper, 36cm by 40cm
Flowers XI 2016
Charcoal on paper, 48cm by 58cm
Hills like white elephants 2018
悬念 (I) (II) (III)
charcoal on paper
74.5cm x 52.5cm, 74.5cm x 33.5cm, 74.5cm x 27.5cm
Star Anaïs 2017
charcoal on paper
Untitled 2014
Charcoal on Canson paper
飯。菜。湯。 (Rice. Vegetables. Soup.) 2014
Charcoal on paper, 59cm by 52cm
Crystal I 2014
Charcoal on paper, 38cm by 42cm
Crystal II 2014
Charcoal on paper, 42cm by 42cm
Ear Cast Drawing 2013
Charcoal on paper
Lady of the Seine Cast Drawing 2013
Charcoal on paper
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Kapuas Hulu
2025
Charcoal on paper set in wood and rattan screen
184 x 246 x 4cm
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Uttar Pradesh
2025
Wood, Plantation Chair, Rattan Canes
76 x 190 x 79 cm
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Kapuas Hulu
(close-up) 2025
Charcoal on paper set in wood and rattan screen
184 x 246 x 4cm
Rotan Rattan: Notions of Labour — Uttar Pradesh
(close-up) 2025
Wood, Plantation Chair, Rattan Canes
76 x 190 x 79 cm
Body Translations; Material Transformations 2024
Rattan, mild steel weldings of text from Audre Lorde's "The Cancer Journals", Japanese denim
A work-in-progress movement study performance collaboration by Sonia Kwek, Marc Khoo and Yanyun Chen, Kelysha Cheah binte Mohamed Kassim and Lenette Lua of National Gallery Singapore, held on 7th December 2024. Photographs courtesy of National Gallery Singapore and Joseph Nair.
Paper Planes 2024
Charcoal drawing on paper
4 panels, 75.2cm by 215.2cm by 9cm each
Private Commission
Risk: Last Laugh 2023
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Risk: Ever Sight 2022
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Risk: Rage 2021
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Risk: Disappearance 2020
Charcoal on Aluminium, 130cm x 140cm
Seen, Screen, Scatter 2021
STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks
Silence, healing 2021
Mulberry charcoal and bark on
STPI handmade paper with watermarks
Whisper, mulberry dream 2021
Mulberry charcoal on
STPI handmade paper with watermark
The Necessity for Departures 2024
Hardground etching, spit bite aquatint, offset lithography and chalk on STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks
The Necessity for Departures 2024
Hardground etching, spit bite aquatint, offset lithography and chalk on STPI handmade mulberry paper with watermarks
A changing stream 2024
Mulberry charcoal and bark on
STPI handmade paper with watermarks
Paper spine 2021
STPI handmade paper with watermark
a gentle caress 2021
Charcoal on paper, aquatint and burnishing
Life is Elsewhere 25 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper
Life is Elsewhere 24 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper
Life is Elsewhere 24 2020
Performance-Installation ; Charcoal on Paper
All the flowers I didn't pick, all the lives I didn't live 2023
Charcoal on aluminum framed with acrylic, 180 x 120 cm
Komorebi Coral 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Plumed Serpent 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Possession 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Terrestrial 2023
Charcoal on Paper, 37cm x 37cm
Fragility 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 34cm x 34cm
Soft Spaces 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 25cm x 34cm
Flux 2025
Charcoal on paper
40cm by 56cm
Un-named 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 54cm x 36cm
Un-Titled 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 54cm x 36cm
The Thought Visits You 2020
Photographed by Tom White
100% Habotai Silk edition of 5, 180cm x 20cm
The Thought Visits You 2020
100% Habotai Silk edition of 5, 180cm x 20cm
Scar Writings 2024
62 mild steel slip weldings, red wire, wood table
120cm by 40cm by 100cm
Scar Writings (detail) 2024
62 mild steel slip weldings, red wire, wood table
120cm by 40cm by 100cm
Scars: I felt very self conscious, inferior.
I hid it like an ostrich, if no one see, no one asks.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: They were the size of raisins
After surgery, they looked like globe grapes
The seeded kind.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: I used to cover it with a plaster
when I wore short sleeves.
I didn’t want people to ask me what it was.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: 没浮起来,自然的清掉了。
只留下一条红线。
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: 我打了七只针。
痒的话,就用冰。
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: I tried to slam my head into a pillow,
missed, landed on the table instead.
There was so much blood!
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scars: All I remember was the whiteness
of a bone sticking out of my arm.
2018 Mild Steel Panel, 30cm by 30cm
Scar: She once told me that, with that mark,
I’d be identifiable as a corpse.
2018 Mild Steel 30cm by 30cm
Scars: Gold #1
2018 Gold leaf on mild steel
Scars: Gold #2
2018 Gold leaf on mild steel
Scars: Legs
2018 Charcoal and chalk on mild steel
On our backs speak a history 2024
charcoal drawing on mild steel
180cm by 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
The scars that write us (full set) 2018
Charcoal and chalk on steel plates
180cm x 80cm
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns (Detail) 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns (Detail) 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Girl - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Two standing lanterns, teak hand-made table, bridal gown, dowry basket, scissors, thread, red fabric, wedding dried fruits, red packets, gold cards, bridal lamps, red bulbs, teapot, tea cups, spoons ; Installation
Bride - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
16 calligraphy lanterns, red bulbs, three camphor chests, three charcoal and chalk drawings on wood, red laminate ; Installation
Wife - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Lantern, teak chairs, red ribbons ; Installation
Mother - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry 2019
Charcoal and chalk on wood, teak frame, lanterns, clogs, red bulbs, drawing dimensions 180cm by 80cm ; Installation
Stories of a Woman and her Dowry : Epilogue : Three Dawns 2022
Installation 150cm x 55cm standing framed drawing with 880+ polymered red threads, writings
Women in Rage Yanyun Chen and Sara Chong 2019
Single channel animation, 4K, 5 min
Mother - Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry (Detail) 2019
Charcoal and chalk on wood, teak frame, lanterns, clogs, red bulbs ; Installation
Constructing Mementos : Nation States II
Yanyun Chen (with Alex Scollay) 2021
Frame: 100cm x 30cm
Screen: 30cm x 20cm
MP4, 1280x800 resolution
approximately 2.5 minutes loop
Constructing Mementos : Nation States I
Yanyun Chen (with Alex Scollay) 2021
Frame: 100cm x 30cm
Screen: 30cm x 20cm
MP4, 1280x800 resolution
approximately 2.5 minutes loop
This line is false no.1 2020
Charcoal on Paper mounted on aluminium
150cm by 60cm
This line is false no.2 2020
Charcoal on Paper mounted on aluminium
150cm by 60cm
Complex Dialogues 2020
Charcoal on Paper, 55.5cm x 32.5cm
The truth lies in fact 2020
Alex Scollay and Yanyun Chen
single channel animation, 4K, 5 min
I am lying, no.3 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm
I am lying, no.2 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm
I am lying, no.1 2020
Charcoal on Paper
65.5cm x 48cm
Flower Flights 2018
limited 500 edition book
Variations and Variables I II III IV 2019
Charcoal print on Cotton Panama Fabric
140cm x 500cm
Veins, Grains and Striae 2024
127cm by 137cm
Charcoal on paper mounted on aluminium di-bond, tembusu wood, pyrography
Bank of Singapore collection
Of Human Bondage 2018
Charcoal and chalk on wood
130cm x 110cm
Skin Stories 2019
Charcoal, white chalk, gold leaf and primer on wood
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 1 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 4 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 3 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Experiments with Johannes Brahms' Horn Trio: Movement 2 2016
charcoal on japanese linen, 110cm by 76cm
Wingspan II 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 40cm x 110cm
Wingspan I 2018
Charcoal on linen, 40cm x 110cm
Skin Stories 2019
Charcoal, white chalk, gold leaf and primer on wood
Flower Flights II 2018
Charcoal on wood, 110cm x 40cm
Flower Flights I 2018
Charcoal on wood, 110cm x 40cm
Clouds II 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 30cm x 40cm
Clouds I 2018
Charcoal on canvas, 30cm x 40cm
Flower Pile 2017
charcoal on paper, 90cm by 90cm
春在心中 四季盛开 2018
charcoal on paper
Words by Liang Wern Fook; 字 梁文福
Calligraphy by Yong Gee Lin; 写 杨如莲
Rise and Fall 2017
Charcoal on paper, 100cm x 55cm
Poppy Wall 2017
Charcoal on paper, 100cm x 50cm
Tall Poppies 2016
Nitram Charcoal on Fabriano Roma paper, 45cm by 105cm
Wind 2016
charcoal on paper, 54.5cm by 21cm
Study of the last goodbye 2017
charcoal on paper, 19cm by 47cm
Defiance 2016
Charcoal on paper, 45cm by 45cm
Flowers I 2014
Charcoal on paper, 63cm by 63cm
Flowers II 2014
Charcoal on paper, 66cm by 82cm
Flowers III 2014
Charcoal on paper
Flowers IV 2014
Charcoal on paper, 51cm by 76cm
Dorian Gray 2015
charcoal on paper
Peony 2015
Charcoal on paper, 39cm by 65cm
Flowers VII 2015
Charcoal on paper, 66cm by 82cm
In bed with the King and Queen 2015
Charcoal on paper
Flowers VIII 2016
Charcoal on paper, 56cm by 56cm
Flowers IX 2016
Charcoal on paper, 58cm by 58cm
Flowers X 2016
Charcoal on paper, 36cm by 40cm
Flowers XI 2016
Charcoal on paper, 48cm by 58cm
Hills like white elephants 2018
悬念 (I) (II) (III)
charcoal on paper
74.5cm x 52.5cm, 74.5cm x 33.5cm, 74.5cm x 27.5cm
Star Anaïs 2017
charcoal on paper
Untitled 2014
Charcoal on Canson paper
飯。菜。湯。 (Rice. Vegetables. Soup.) 2014
Charcoal on paper, 59cm by 52cm
Crystal I 2014
Charcoal on paper, 38cm by 42cm
Crystal II 2014
Charcoal on paper, 42cm by 42cm
Ear Cast Drawing 2013
Charcoal on paper
Lady of the Seine Cast Drawing 2013
Charcoal on paper