Settlements

Settlements
Chinese ink on rice paper
72.5cm x 35cm
Ho Seok Kee (Silver, Established Artist Category, 2018 UOB Painting of the Year competition)
Nuralysya Bte Abdul Hamid, Hassanah Bte Kazali (17, Rainbow Centre Talent Art Programme)

Looking like a shanshui painting from afar, this is yet another clever use of the traditional Chinese ink painting style to deliver a typical scene from old Singapore. The Jurong area in the western region of Singapore used to be a vast swath of swamps, jungles and small fishing villages. This was before industrialisation turned the area into a modern estate.