Eng Tow is an interdisciplinary artist whose works merge the disciplines of fine art, craft and design. This catalogue traces Tow's artistic navigation through life, highlighting key shifts in her practice from methodical fabric constructions to cast, collaged and painted abstractions. The natural world is a significant influence on Tow, and her works offer an insight into nature's unseen energies. Eng Tow - the sixth sense is part of the Something New Must Turn Up series which offers a comparative perspective of how artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore critically engaged with the conditions of multiculturalism, developmentalism and modernisation through ground-breaking explorations of media. Something New Must Turn Up is a series of six catalogues comparing the practices of artistic forerunners in post-independence Singapore. Through their groundbreaking explorations of media, ranging from collage and printmaking to installation and digital art, these six artists actively expanded the boundaries of art. Each standalone catalogue traces the individual journeys that these artists undertook as they strove to be continuously "new." By bringing together essays, interviews, full-coloured plates and archival material, the series offers a comparative perspective of how artists critically engaged with the conditions of multiculturalism, developmentalism and modernisation in post-independence Singapore. This series accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore.
