Jacintha Chan
Jacintha Chan is an upcoming young artist from Singapore (2000). She is a Fine Arts diploma graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
Chan works with oil paints and is currently conducting mixed media experiments into her artworks. She strives towards opening new grounds for discussions on lesser-known issues relating to mental health with her works.
The centre of her work usually revolves around struggles, focusing on what events or objects soothes and worsens mental health. From which is to become the inspiration for what she is working on.
Nature and I
Oil paint on wood panel
96 x 61 cm
2021
Nymph 3
Oil painting on canvas
29.7 x 42 cm
2021
View into the Bedroom
Oil painting on canvas
74 x 59 cm
2019
Hyacinth
Oil paint on wood panel
48 x 61 cm
2021
Pisces Moon
Oil paint on wood panel
48 x 61 cm
2021
The Five Selves in Fairyland is a mixed media collage painting exploring the theme of myth and folklore of Fairies.
The mixed media work is based on the five parts of the artist.
How she sees herself, how she is around others, how she views death and the transition into a fairy, and how she is in nature.
The use of storybook pages text and image transfer was used to represent the feeling of safety and wonder invoked by the lore of European fairy tales that the artist read about in storybooks in her early childhood.
In contrast, the paintings hope to capture the artist’s distress and Depersonalization-derealization disorder, through the traumatic yet strangely meditative process of creating the five works. The artist was thinking of the disorder, in which she describes it as the person in the mirror is wearing her skin but it is not her. The use of the reverse image text becomes an embodiment of that experience of looking at the self through a mirror. And also how the reverse world is in a sense the indication that the audience and artist has travelled to the Otherworld.
Chaos Daisy
Human hair on woodpaper
20 x 9 cm
2021
Chaos Daisy is a sculpture made out of human hair to form the shape of a daisy. It challenges the aesthetics of beauty with hair that has been separated from the scalp, as it is commonly seen as unappealing once it has left its host. The daisy being a weed flower represents the common yet unseen struggles faced by many that are stigmatised by society.