WALTER is local artist Dawn Ng's pet project involving guerrilla installations of a curious colossal bunny who pops up across Singapore's standard landscape of flats and heartland enclaves. By using Walter to create and photograph scenarios packed with surprise and wonder, Dawn draws attention to commonly overlooked and over familiar spaces across our landscape, while dodging cops and people with no sense of humour. WALTER is a celebration of our ordinary by helping us look at this city as children again. Marina Bay is pleased to welcome WALTER to the Marina Bay City Gallery as an initiative under our Marina Bay Public Art Programme.
In the past 28 years, artist Dawn Ng has acquired rather marvelous skills in drawing, painting, cutting, printing, photography, pasting, writing and making things at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Georgetown University. She spent 8 years across DC, London and New York working for creative shops on brands such as Nike and Levi’s. Her work is reflective of an urge to hijack, subvert and toy with the obvious to surprise people with the truth.
Dawn has launched numerous shows, of which a paper plane installation at Blackout led The Business Times to coin her “The New Art Tour de Force of the Singapore Art Scene.” Dawn has had her work curated for the Singapore Art Show and done commission projects with Singapore Art Museum. Her solo show for WALTER received in 2010 received numerous accolades for its controversial guerilla content and form, and was brought back for SAM’s Children’s Season 2011.
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