This Malaysian artist makes small floral sculptures that are both beautiful and strange
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This Malaysian creative person makes minor floral sculptures that are both beautiful and strange
In this week'due south Creative Capital letter instalment, we encounter Noreen Loh, aka miun. A spontaneous visit to LASALLE College of the Arts on her way to work inspired her to quit her twenty-four hour period task and kickoff her fine art journeying.
Multi-disciplinary artist Noreen Loh aka miun. (Photo: Noreen Loh)
30 Jan 2022 07:06AM (Updated: 30 Jan 2022 11:24AM)
The floral sculptural fine art pieces that dominate Noreen Loh'due south Instagram folio are hauntingly beautiful. Ethereal, surreal, elegant and fantastical. They capture and agree your attention.
When I first stumbled across this forty-yr-old Malaysian artist's works, I thought that the floral works were her specialty. But equally I learned more about her, I realised that she does not have one. Rather, she works beyond multiple mediums, adopting unlike styles and producing very different kinds of work.
When Loh told me she began her fine art journey on a whim while working in the shipping industry, I had to know more than.
WERE Yous CREATIVE IN YOUR YOUTH?
According to Google, a youth is someone between 15 and 24 years sometime. I came to Singapore when I was 19 but I only got into LASALLE Higher of the Arts when I was 25 years onetime. So, I am not sure I fitted the "youth" profile then. Creatively, I wasn't exposed to a lot of art when I was growing up in Malaysia. Just I think my creativity emerged as I got older.
Funnily, when I was working for a shipping company (she stayed in the industry for four to five years), I did go comments from a colleague that I was more suited for the fine art and design industry, and that maybe, I should reconsider my choice of vocation. To be honest, I became an artist by accident. Simply You WENT TO ART SCHOOL?
Yes, and I've only completed my foundation year at LASALLE . 1 24-hour interval, on the style to piece of work, I passed past the school and I suddenly had this impulse to become in. Thankfully, I acted on it.
I alighted at the nearest autobus stop and serendipitously, it was their open day. After my visit, I took a spring of organized religion. I quit my full-fourth dimension work, practical and got into LASALLE . WERE YOUR PARENTS SUPPORTIVE OF YOU MAKING THE SWITCH?
My dad passed abroad when I was ii years old, so sadly, he wasn't effectually when I made the switch. Besides, I was already an adult so really, it is not something yous need your parents' blessing for.
Yet, my mum loves me and she has been so supportive of my entire journeying. That said, I recall she yet doesn't understand how I make a living as an artist till today.
HOW WOULD You Depict YOUR WORK?
I'm a multi-disciplinary artist, which ways I dear to explore different subjects and experiment with dissimilar mediums to create a broad body of work.
For example, if I were given a specific tool, I can produce many different results even though I'thou drawing the same affair. HOW WOULD You SAY YOUR WORK HAS EVOLVED OVER THE Final DECADE?
Afterward my foundation year, I deferred my studies to pursue a jewellery design class. Withal, it was cancelled ii weeks before form even commenced.
While waiting for the course to resume, I went job hunting and stumbled upon a creative banana job at a floral store. I ended up spending three years at that place.
Right before I quit that job, and inspired by what I was doing, I created my first series of artwork (Beauty & the Beast) using fresh flowers as the medium. This artwork was created in 2009.
When I went dorsum to flowers equally a subject field once again at a later appointment, I decided to create a floral sculpture instead. (It is part of the series, The Marriage, which features Lamitek laminates.)
I was grateful that the years of being a florist, and the research and time I spent experimenting with flowers and foliage gave me lots of resources and an in-depth cognition that allowed me to brand something entirely new with this medium. That artwork was created in 2015. It is actually hard for me to explain how my work has evolved but I hope that this is a adept example on how my work has transitioned through the years, fifty-fifty with the same bailiwick matter.
HAS THERE BEEN A DEFINING MOMENT FOR YOU SO FAR IN THE LAST 10 YEARS OF Do?
This year will be that defining moment. I'one thousand revisiting my arroyo in making art.
WHAT BROUGHT Y'all TO SINGAPORE TO BEGIN WITH?
Moving to Singapore is but something that many Malaysians retrieve virtually. For many of us, growing up, nosotros long to see the residue of the world. Greener pastures, you know?
Thankfully, given the profession I have chosen, it's good to be here. The art scene and support in Singapore are definitely much improve than back home.
Practise YOU Experience ENOUGH LOCAL PEOPLE Capeesh AND SUPPORT THE ARTS HERE?
I would say just enough to make a living. But you need to be a very hardworking artist to survive. It can exist really tough.
WHAT INSPIRES YOU AND YOUR Piece of work?
Sometimes, information technology is the material; sometimes, it is the discipline. Ultimately, information technology's the process. I spend a lot of time experimenting. Information technology's these experimentations that really contribute to the final work.
You DABBLE ACROSS MANY MEDIUMS BUT IS There ONE Yous Relish THE Nigh?
I hate to stick to just one! Honestly, I exercise not have a preference. I feel stagnant and unmotivated if I keep doing the same thing over and over again without a breakthrough. Using different mediums challenges me and gets my listen going. And that is why I want to brand fine art in the showtime place. I take so many ideas and thoughts that I want to translate them into tangible creations.
WHERE Tin WE Purchase YOUR WORK IF INTERESTED?Most of my artwork is commission-based or project-based, so you can email me. But when I'm free to create personal works, I update my website, which my husband has created.
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON THAT We SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR IN 2022?
I've recently unveiled a show chosen 36 x miun. It is a collaboration that was launched late last year. I worked with 8 Storytree to create 35mm films that have been pre-exposed with the eye illustrations I have washed. You tin buy the film from 8Storytree to make your own artworks.
I am also working on something actually personal this year. Can't say more than right now. Stay tuned.
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