One of Singapore’s leading modern sculptors and the 1995 recipient of the Cultural Medallion in Art, Han Sai Por is best known for her organic sculptures rendered primarily in granite and marble, created from monoblock pieces of stone.
One of Singapore’s leading modern sculptors and the 1995 recipient of the Cultural Medallion in Art, Han Sai Por is best known for her organic sculptures rendered primarily in granite and marble, created from monoblock pieces of stone.
Han’s understated sculptures have a meditative quietness through which she explores the fraught relationship between man and nature. Studies in elementary forms, her monoliths explore ideas of presence and simplicity, and examine the fundamental characteristics of sculpture by emphasising mass, materiality and tactility. Her sculptures can be found in numerous public and corporate spaces in Singapore including the Esplanade and Changi Airport. In the context of these busy city spaces, Han’s unassuming organic works encourage viewers to ponder the delicate balance between the natural and the urban, reasserting that man is very much a part of nature and not apart from it.
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