Yeoh Kean Thai (born 1966) is an artist from
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
.
Achievements
Yeoh Kean Thai is a former winner of the
Philip Morris Art Award, Freeman Fellowship (Vermont Studio) and most recently the prestigious Commonwealth Arts Award.
He has developed a unique aesthetic language using metal and metal aesthetic. His is credited with being one of the first artists from Malaysia to be featured during New York's "Asia Art Week", in March 2008 and then again in 2009, through
Shalini Ganendra Fine Art. He has exhibited in other international venues including Hong Kong and Italy.
His works are in the permanent collection of the National Art Gallery, Malaysia and numerous corporate and individual collections.
Themes
The underlying themes of Thai’s works, since the early 1990s, involved the processes through which the
natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all life, living and non-living things occurring nature, naturally, meaning in this case not Artificiality, artificial. The term is most often applied to the Earth or some parts of Earth. Th ...
is disrupted, corrupted and manipulated by human development and
urbanisation
Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly the ...
.
Thai’s use of technique, colour and perspective are meant to invite individual empathy and reaction.
These themes of environment, decay and visual regeneration continue–but have evolved into a visual palette that has been described as more engaging and unique.
References
Further reading
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External links
kakiseni
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Malaysian artists
1966 births
Living people