Eric Chan - Artist Info

About Eric Chan

  • Biography

    Eric Chan (b.1975 Malaysia/Singapore) is one of Southeast Asia's notable contemporary painters. A Masters (Painting) graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and LASALLE College of the Arts, Chan has cut a reputation for reinvigorating interest in painting as a resonant contemporary media.

    His paintings are shaped by photographic and camera effects and aesthetics - from the blurring or smearing of paintings (simulating photographic images taken with slow shutter speed) to the distinctive graphics of film negatives.

    Artist Eric Chan probes our romantic sensibilities and the mechanics of myth-making through a rich, vivid portfolio of images shaped by historical chronicles, classical and popular fiction, mu...

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