My work as an artist has led me to be an experienced collector of ephemeral things. Installing a sculpture of 150 steel birds this month took me back to when I first began, collecting paper aeroplanes I found on the street…
Read MoreBija Seeds Projects featured in Passage Magazine
PASSAGE is Friends Of the Museum's bi-monthly magazine featuring articles relating to Singapore's museums, permanent collections, special exhibitions, local history, and Asian art. This edition features an article by writer and journalist Uta Weigelt who was interested in my installation artworks made with Saga seeds, the bright red seeds of the Saga (Adenanthera) tree found in SouthEast Asia, which symbolise love, nostalgia, and longing….
Read MoreJournALL discusses Poetry Net (III)
Thanks to JournALL, the art journal by international curator Valeria Ceregini for the interview and for featuring my poetry net series, in the light of this time of isolation, and the great isolation and disconnect expressed in these works which tell the story of migrants stranded around the world.
Read MoreHolding Space
In this post I talk a little bit about my recent artwork ‘Holding Space’. I wanted to create an artwork which used hands to convey the human need for closeness, the cultural disconnect between social groups, and the potential to reach out and heal this gap.
Read MoreRice by Eva - Inspired writing - Clockwork Moons
Carpe Art Journal features fiction, essays, reviews and personal anecdotes about art. The essay ‘Rice’ by Eva Wong Nava was inspired by one of the artworks in Nicola Anthony’s Clockwork Moon’s series. Clockwork Moons (Time Waits for No Migrant Man) triggered a childhood memory of loss and enlightenment prompting Eva to write this beautiful story. The story was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2018 by the Editor of Ariel Chart Magazine.
Read MoreIntersection, Yangon Exhibition
Intersection was an exhibition of poetry and visual art by Singaporean poet Marc Nair and visual artist Nicola Anthony. The work maps an architecture of memory at the junction of three diverse cities: Yangon, London, and Singapore.
Read MoreThe Artist's Year: A timecapsule of 2018
Found Articles: The body as shelter - A conversation with Antony Gormley
This article has been inhabiting my mind for the past week - having re-read it's morsels of creative conceptual thought a few times, I believe it's an important interview for any contemporary artist or creative to be aware of. Coming from one of my major inspirations, Antony Gormley, are his thoughts on art, space, time, and the body. (Check out the original interview by Karlyn De Jongh here.)
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