Ian Woo is a Singaporean artist whose work is recognised by prestigious awards including the Sovereign Asian Art Prize and UOB Painting of the Year. His artistic interests in modernism, perceptual abstraction, and the sound structures of music improvisation are key in his role as an educator at Lasalle College of the Arts, involved in shaping the curriculum and guiding artists in developing their practice and research.
Woo employs patterns, lines, shapes and colours freely in his works, they have a poetical quality that incites curiosity and the imagination of the mind. Their visual qualities are playful and elusive, reflecting the artist’s personality and philosophical contemplations. Tracing Woo’s thoughts on questions about what defines reality and the essence of life, The Real Thing articulates these profound thoughts through layers of paint that seem to unravel, to reveal a truth within, if one looked inward enough.
