Tatler Singapore

These Women are What Creativity Looks Like

- Artist

Confident, self-assured and abundantly creative, these six women embody the qualities of a Céline woman

Amarble block with text sandblaste­d on it (pictured on opposite page) is part of Dawn Ng’s year-long project exploring daily questions and answers between a child psychologi­st and herself. This marble block, with a list of words on it including “a bicycle”, “a song”, “a memory” and “a pair of scissors” was an exploratio­n of the statement: “Put everything that you are inside a box.” Known for her works such as Walter, the guerrilla installati­ons of a giant rabbit that appeared against the landscape of HDB flats, and Bang, an installati­on done for the Facebook Singapore office which comprised 16,000 customised vinyl confetti stickers, Dawn considers her entire artistic practice as the creation she is most proud of. “I don’t think there was an exact point when I decided to become an artist,” says the mother of elevenmont­h-old daughter Ava. “I was always documentin­g, writing and making

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