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The ‘in-between’ and the ‘not quite’ are my tools of choice: drawing with string and jesmonite, or painting on the back of canvases, creating works that sit on the boundaries between drawing and sculpture.

Jolene Liam

I am an artist and architect from Singapore. I believe that the spaces we inhabit and the objects we collect reveal a lot about us; expressions of our identities, habits, and personalities. Through drawing and making in different mediums, my work reflects on ideas of home, nature, and identity. My background as an architect has fuelled an interest in observing and documenting how places are experienced, whilst exploring the gaps between conventional methods of representation. These include describing spaces through visual inventories of objects within, and walking maps of places I have visited.

In the process, I hope to encounter different ways of thinking about and depicting the spaces around us, especially everyday and in-between spaces. Working in the expanded, experimental field of drawing enables me to find new ways of interrogating space. The ‘in-between’ and the ‘not quite’ are my tools of choice: drawing with string and jesmonite, or painting on the back of canvases, creating works that sit on the boundaries between drawing and sculpture. My work has been shortlisted for several awards including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Art Gemini Prize, World Illustration Awards, and Royal Institute of British Architects’ Eye Line Drawing Competition.

Jolene Liam / In My Canvas Room (Detail) / 2023

Jolene Liam / Ubud Water Palace Walking Map / 2023

Jolene Liam / In My Canvas Room / 2023

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