Chang Fee Ming | |
| (b. 1959, Malaysian) | |
| Born in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, 1959. Chang Fee Ming was born in February 1959 in the small town of Dungun in the eastern coastal state of Terengganu, Malaysia. He now divides his time between Kuala Terengganu and the Indonesian island of Bali. Fee Ming is self-taught and works entirely in watercolour, pushing the medium to its limits by combining wet and dry techniques to create intense and meticulously worked paintings with a sense of heightened reality. His subject matter is the human figure, landscape or still life. He is best known for his striking half-figure compositions that often include all three elements. Although based in Terengganu and Bali, Fee Ming regularly undertakes epic journeys that he uses to gather material and sketch ideas for series of works produced at home in the studio. The subjects of these series are the lives of the people and the communities he encounters in remote areas, whose traditions and ways of living are increasingly under threat. His travels have taken him along the length of Mekong river and to Burma, India and the Swahili coast of East Africa. Many books have been published about Fee Ming's work, including: The World of Chang Fee Ming (1995); The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming (2000); Mekong (2004); Mekong: Exploring the Source (2008); and Imprinted Thoughts (2009), which was published in conjunction with his exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). In 2010 he launched a book of travel sketches, Sketching Through Southeast Asia, and Visage. The latter featured a new body of work that was inspired by his experiences at the Louvre Museum while observing the making of the film 'Visage' by the internationally acclaimed director Tsai Ming Liang. Chang Fee Ming: A Traveller's Diary (A Private Collection) is published in conjunction with Chang Fee Ming's first solo exhibition in London, organised by One East Asia, Singapore, in 2014. Fee Ming's work is eagerly collected in Southeast Asia, Europe, the US and Australia. | |
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