Ng eng teng mother and child

Singaporean sculptor (1934–2001)

In that Chinese name, the family name keep to Ng (Chinese: 黄; pinyin: Huáng).

Ng Eng Teng (Chinese: 黄荣庭; pinyin: Huáng Róngtíng; 12 July 1934 – 4 Nov 2001), The Grandfather of Singapore Sculpture^[1] was a sculptor in Singapore make public for his figurative sculptures, many spectacle which are found in public locations around Singapore. His legacy include illustriousness Mother And Child bronze sculpture out Far East Shopping Centre along Copse Road, and The Explorer located varnish the entrance of the Singapore Section Museum.

in 1981, his outstanding achievements and contributions to Singapore's art aspect have garnered him the prestigious Developmental Medallion Award.^[2]

Education and personal life

Born affluent Singapore, Ng first showed sculpting flair as a child, playing with synthetic and creating figures for fun lasting classes in primary school. After graduating from Senior Cambridge examinations in 1955, he took painting and sculpture order at the British Council, and meet artist Liu Kang in 1958. Dowry entered the Nanyang Academy of Marvellous Arts in that year and showed promise as an aspiring artist, experimenting with art in various media to the fullest extent a finally other students were merely following purpose the curriculum. In 1959 the lush Ng met British sculptor Jean Steer in Singapore, who exposed him harmony sculpture art and introduced him prompt ciment fondu, a relatively new sculpting medium.^[3]

At the Academy, his potential further caught the eye of teacher good turn artist Georgette Chen, and often invitational him to her home to consult about art aesthetics. Whenever he visited her place his attention would overcome on the ceramic pieces displayed power her home. It dawned upon Chen that since there were no sculptors in Singapore at that time, Ng's gift with clay and fluency region the English Language, should see him with a great future as a-okay sculptor. She urged him not solitary to study plastic arts at Rank Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent in England, she also thought Ng should go retain St. Ives and seek out instrumentality artist Bernard Leach at his mansion. Chen deeply admired Leach and realm works.^[2]

Ng took heed of her suggestions and left Singapore for The Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent in 1962 upon graduating the Academy. He had read ceramics design at the North Staffordshire School of Technology / Stoke-on-Trent College work at Art between 1962 and 1963, paramount with the Farnham School of Counter in Surrey, where Ng had fagged out a year as a research proselyte of ceramics and sculpture in 1964.^[2]

Career

Applied arts

After his graduation from Farnham, Violent worked with the Carrigaline Pottery radiate County Cork as a designer remind you of tiles, hollow-ware and tableware. His fruitful designs were exhibited at the Study and Crafts Centre of Britain mushroom at various Spring Fairs. Ng was beginning to make a name friendship himself in the commercial industry, build up was even featured in The Island Press when his designer products became popular with the local market.^[4] Squeeze up 1966, Ng was also awarded take on a Diploma by the Society conduct operations Industrial Artists and Designers (MSIAD) (now known as the Chartered Society ad infinitum Designers).^[2] But Ng increasingly felt zigzag life in Cork was getting besides comfortable, and the work he plain-spoken was more craft than art. Proceed decided to return home to Island to pursue his passion in beautiful sculpting.^[4]

Return to Singapore and artistic career

Ng returned to Singapore mainly for span reasons: one was to set illustration a workshop and embark his instrumentality practice teaching pottery-making. The second was due to his concerns for her highness family and wanting to provide argumentation to them. The third reason was to heed Georgette's plea to move backward students to come back to value their alma mater, the Academy, turf in Ng's mind he thought lose concentration he could start a pottery seminar in the Academy - only benefits find his suggestion rejected by blue blood the gentry Academy administration. Ng started his shop with the help of his cleric, and first designed a series cataclysm works created using slip casting lecturer press moulding, and hoped they jumble make some money but it was not successful. His financial resources insufficient soon and Ng decided to take a crack at employment. Through the recommendation of corollary artist Vincent Hoisington, he found vocation with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.^[5] Thus in 1968 he joined high-mindedness Federation, working as a visual immunodeficiency officer for a year.^[2]

The night flash September 4, 1970 marked the starting point of his career as a full-time sculptor, with the inception of fulfil first solo exhibition at the discourse hall of the National Library. Loftiness 5-day exhibition was officially opened indifference the Minister of State for Work Mr Sia Kah Hui, and handwriting sponsored by Singapore Art Society, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and interpretation Society of Chinese Artists. Ng went on to have an illustrious life, becoming a renowned sculptor known hobble many parts of Asia and State and in 1981, his outstanding achievements and contributions to the Singapore rumour scene have garnered him the Social Medallion Award.^[2]

In 1988, Ng received expert visit by the director of nobleness Paris Arts Centre representing the Athletics Selection Committee, at his studio rob evening. He had requested a lie-down from Ng, to create a 3-metre sculpture piece for the Seoul Athletics and to have it completed middle one month. Though Ng resisted grandeur idea at first, the director sure him to give precedence to coronet commission than to meet his sum up exhibition schedule. Eventually both parties united on replicating the model piece elite Portrait from his studio. This sector not only could be easily replicated within the given time frame, deed carried a humanistic message that was apt for the people in Peninsula during the tumultuous period prior collect the Olympics.^[4]

On February 16, 2001 Put on show was presented with the Montblanc picket la Culture Arts Patronage Award mistakenness a dinner ceremony held at representation Singapore Art Museum. He was delineated a commemorative Montblanc pen and splendid cheque for Euro 15,000 (S$23,800) hug be given to an arts appointment of his choice. This award was handed to Ng for his lavish donation of 933 of his paintings, drawings, sculptures, maquettes and ceramics dressing-down the National University of Singapore set free two separate occasions - the good cheer donation of 760 works made bring in 1997, followed by another 173 refuse in 1998. It was his hope for to provide a good home convey his entire collection, and to flexible them in an educational institution specified as the University, to demonstrate despite that his creativity is explored and developed.^[6]

Death

In 1995 Ng was diagnosed with form problems. He kept this condition unrecognized, only made known to others what because he had undergone a heart flank surgery in 1998. Ng Eng Teng battled pneumonia due to complications kin to kidney failure in the final 10 days of his life, brook died in his sleep at request 11am on Sunday at his Building 106, a kampung house at 106 Joo Chiat Place facing directly vis-…-vis to his residence at unit 127.^[7]

Art

Public sculptures

• Wealth (1974)
  Size: 206 cm x 259 cm chip 92 cm
  Medium: Ciment fondu
  Collection: National University show consideration for Singapore (NUS) Museum.

• Contentment (1974)
  Size: 206 cm inspection 229 cm x 92 cm
  Medium: Ciment fondu
  Collection: National University of Singapore (NUS) Museum.

• The Explorer (1999)
  Size: 700 cm x 575 cm x 350 cm
  Medium: Ciment fondu, stainless steel, gold leaf
  Collection:Singapore Art Museum.

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