Euan Heng | Archipelago

My studio practice originates, not from an idea, but an imaginative engagement with reality. The paper-cut collages and paintings, selected from a current body of works, exhibit the characteristics and the trajectory of an evolving artistic production. At the moment of assembly, paper-cut collages give shape to and advance the corresponding paintings and small sculptures. To the classical principles and conventions that continue to inform my studio practice, one can add abstraction or, to be precise — abstracting from. This method of construction initiates new opportunities in the representation of the motif in both shape and colour.