January 2012
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FTKYW for L'ile Aux Ashby
Due to some unforeseen circumstances, FTKYW won’t be hopping on a plane to France. We’re all bummed out about it but fret not, you’ll see the new pieces from the collaboration with L’ile aux Ashby around and very soon! Very excited to share them with all of you (: xx
Anonymous asked: Hey! Do you embroider on paper ( I refer to the portraits) I'm Embroidering too, when I embroider on paper, the paper rips... On fabric it works fine. But your art looks so clean. Kind regards, Louise
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FTKYW for L'ile Aux Ashby
FTKYW is going to France! I’ve been busy working on a collaboration with the madly talented designer of L’ile Aux Ashby. Very very excited to show the new FTKYW pieces at the upcoming Born Designers 2012 trade show in Courchevel! Drop by if you’re in France. Will post photos soon!
Check out the event here and L’ile Aux Ashby here and here.
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FTKYW on vogue.fr
Alhamdulillah. Excuse me while I scrape my jaw off the floor and resuscitate my heart. In the meantime, see it here. Thank you to everyone who made this possible.
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2012
Happily working. Happy New Year!
December 2011
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CATALOG issue #87 - Holiday!
Back in November, the good people at CATALOG approached me to collaborate with their creative team for the magazine’s December cover. I pretended to be cool (though my heart was excitedly beating its way out of my chest) and said HELL YES. Enough talking, on to the covers!
Check out the stitched masthead the CATALOG team did. Very neat, no? Here are the girl and guy pre-production...
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Let's talk about everything
“Let’s talk about everything” is a collection of memories carefully collected from four individuals, springing from four different phrases that hold strong emotional connections to these individuals. These phrases were taken from songs, quotes, poetry, etc. Each memory is explored, studied, laboured over and embroidered on found materials.
Gold thread was used in varying degrees...
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come see this if you're in the Philippines!
Some of my most recent works are showing now at Finale Art File Gallery in the Philippines till 31st Dec. It is such an honour to be shown next to some really amazing artists who are making very exciting works. Thank you to the curators and everyone else who made this possible. Will post some pictures soon!
Arrange, assemble, collect, choose, construct, collide, cut & paste, intervene,...
Anonymous asked: Where can we buy your artwork? :) - Zenia
November 2011
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peek.
It’s a Tuesday morning which feels like a Saturday. And here’s a peek into what’s coming in December.
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FTKYW on Like I give a frock.
Friends to keep you warm was recently featured on Like I Give A Frock, a website to definitely visit if you want to keep up to date with all things art, design and fashion local and otherwise. Thank you, Pakkee! Skip on ahead and read it here and do check it out the rest of the site too!
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wednesday.
Making new works, yay! While alternatively rewatching Harry Potter (hehe) and listening to Florence + the Machine’s Ceremonials, Feist’s Metals, The Antlers’ Burst Apart, Andrew Bird’s Norman OST and of course, The National’s everything.
Though I love FTKYW to bits and pieces, it is nice to work on something else and explore other ideas, other ways of expressing....
October 2011
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FTKYW at The Little Dröm Store
Some photos of the installation. Thanks to drömkeepers for the pictures!
It is another rainy day. Have I mentioned that I love this type of weather? All I want to do is read a good book or watch a good film with a steaming cup of coffee and warm cookies. But of course I cannot. Work beckons, big plans that should keep me busy till the end of the year!
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Friends to keep you warm at The Little Dröm Store
She finds that bear hats protect her secrets very well. But they threaten to tumble everytime she opens her mouth.
Come down to The Little Dröm Store to meet the silly and strange girls and boys of Friends to keep you warm. They would certainly love to meet you! More details here. Thank you to the drömkeepers for generously providing their space and help, and to everyone else without whom FTKYW...
all packed and ready to go!
Will post more pictures of the set up and the installation soon!
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Mark your calendars for October 22nd!
Something from the Friends to keep you warm series. These were shown back in March this year and are 40 x 50 cm. They are some of my most favourite pieces in the series.
Mark your calendars for October 22nd! That is when the next installation of FTKYW will be unveiled at The Little Drom Store. 5 more days! Are you excited? I sure am!
On top of my to-do list after the exhibition is to...
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tuesday
With the clock ticking closer and closer to the show, I do wish time would be at a standstill! Also, I think I should stop looking at other people’s work because a lot of them are way too amazing and it makes me feel like an underachiever. Besides, work generates more work, more ideas, more inspirations, more style.
Okay, back to the embroidering!
ps: Anyone know of any creative...
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in progress, bones and metals.
Working on FTKYW while catching up on Bones season 1.
ps: Have you heard Feist’s Metals? It is so good and on repeat!
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warmly
Some pieces from Friends to keep you warm.
These are 8 x 10 inches, pen, watercolour and embroidery on acid-free paper. They are proudly hanging (with a couple of other pieces) in the home of a very wonderful and very warm family.
Currently working on new pieces for a show at The Little Dröm Store. Very excited! Keep a lookout for more information (and also more new old pieces from the...
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September 2011
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choose the brightest future - up close and...
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CATALOG play!
FTKYW in CATALOG magazine’s Issue #83 - PLAY! Together with three other local artists, pandapanda (much love for Shu!), Ridhwan Sesapar (one third of ONESIXTYNOTEPAD, very dapper and dashing young lads) and Kristie Sim (one word - multi-talented).
Thanks to everyone who made this possible. Happy weekend!
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nixon art mosh 2011
Showing tonight at Nixon Art Mosh 2011.
WatchWatching this video made me miss photography and wish I could incorporate it more into my work.Though I graduated last year with a fine art degree in Photography, I haven’t really touched a camera since then beyond using it for documentation purposes. Instead I’ve spent many many happy blissful days sewing. Perhaps one day when a project comes to mind and photography is exactly what it...
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make.
This is what I’ve been up to recently, making things for people whose work I love and enjoy (:
Bisous!
August 2011
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we love books!
The Secret Garden, is showing at the Tokyo Book Art Week 2011, happening now till August 29th. Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s book (one of my all-time favourite books - Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? ), I had an immense urge to fold pages into roses. I want to fill an entire room with folded book pages flowers! Perhaps one day. If you read Japanese, visit...
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welcome, lovers!
WHAT POSTS DELUGE! WHERE IS IT!! *coughcough* That’s from all the dust that has been gathering. Sorry everyone, my bones is going through some changes and huge undertakings and they are rattling and sighing with mixed feelings, but generally are buzzed. There shall be new beginnings, as many as it takes, for there can never be too many beginnings. Every moment is a new beginning!...
June 2011
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Anonymous asked: I'm amazed at how you came from a humble background - irsyad - and yet you're still capable of being where you are right now. I'm really proud of you. :)
May 2011
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This is yours and mine is showing at Young Art Taipei now. Alongside seven Singaporean artists - John Clang, Zhao Renhui, Joel Yuen, Sherman Ong, Ang Song Nian and Mintio. Together with works by artists under 45 from approximately 57 galleries all over the world. This is my very first showing at an international platform, and I am trés trés excited!
The fair runs till this Sunday, May 15. Check...
It’s been too long. Just to let you know I...
March 2011
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Hello!!!
First of all, thank you, Aida, for the very lovely, made-me-blush posts. It’s such a blessing to have someone like you for a friend. Alhamdulillah.
Second of all, there are a lot of things to update!! I will do so very very soon. Get ready for a posts deluge. Please excuse my excited-ness, I’ve missed writing on my bones.
Third of all, my prayers for the people of Japan and...
here's one for the brave:
pain is temporary. it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. if i quit, however, it lasts forever.
- lance armstrong.
our brave, brave soldier, izzi, will be having her exhibition tonight at ion and we will be rooting for her.
-a
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you're invited!
Head on down to ION Art Gallery this Thursday (March 10) at 7 pm, for Now or Never, a collection of artworks that examines the concerns and reflections of ten artists including yours truly! I will be exhibiting my degree show project, an installation called This Is Yours and Mine, an exploration into what do we inherit from our ancestors and what do we leave behind for our children, building...
Currently, I am working and stitching feverishly for an upcoming exhibition at Chan Hampe Gallery with three other talented artists (will keep you updated!). My fingers are callused from sewing maybe 15 hours almost everyday, but I am loving it. Because the frenzy must continue, I invited the very fabulous and very amazing Aida Azlin to guest write here in my little space.
She is the founder,...
about today.
Work quietly.
Do not seek the approval of others, but your own.
Be honest with yourself. Listen.
Work patiently.
Dream hugely, work hopefully.
February 2011
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everydayrainbow (:
The lovely folks over at everydayrainbow, wrote a little something on Friends To Keep You Warm, which you can read here. Everydayrainbow is absolutely filled with many many lovely things that will keep you occupied for an hour or two. They even have an online shop (from which I am loving a few things)! I love their sections on art, design, travel, fashion inspirations and handmade.
Have a...
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