playground

playground: i know where the big girls go
playground | 150 x 70 in. | 2009 | mixed media on canvas | commissioned by raffles girls school 130th anniversary

"In conjunction of the RGS 130th anniversary theme “Living the Legacy” with the RGS Arts Festival 2009, PLAYGROUND: I KNOW WHERE THE BIG GIRLS GO is a three panel monochrome work by artist Dawn Ng, featuring the Anderson campus as a playground for leagues of girls who grow up to become legends in their own right. By juxtaposing a visual confetti of school girls, icons, objects, secrets and myths, Dawn’s motive was to create a kaleidoscopic archive of the memories of all girls who’ve passed through it.

As a ‘collective” project, Dawn turned PLAYGROUND into a large-scale community art movement involving RGS girls who were asked to submit personal photos and stories of the campus which hallmark their time there. Through grassroots word-of-mouth, pod casts, and posters fanning news about the project, the girls’ submissions swelled on a PLAYGROUND blog online http://www.ourprojectplayground.blogspot.com/. This landslide of real-life photos, objects and stories from the girls set the foundation from which PLAYGROUND has been constructed into a surreal collage landscape of the Anderson campus."

dawn

<	playground: i know where the big girls go playground \| 150 x 70 in. \| 2009 \| mixed media on canvas \| commissioned by raffles girls school 130th anniversary "In conjunction of the RGS 130th anniversary theme “Living the Legacy” with the RGS Arts Festival 2009, PLAYGROUND: I KNOW WHERE THE BIG GIRLS GO is a three panel monochrome work by artist Dawn Ng, featuring the Anderson campus as a playground for leagues of girls who grow up to become legends in their own right. By juxtaposing a visual confetti of school girls, icons, objects, secrets and myths, Dawn’s motive was to create a kaleidoscopic archive of the memories of all girls who’ve passed through it. As a ‘collective” project, Dawn turned PLAYGROUND into a large-scale community art movement involving RGS girls who were asked to submit personal photos and stories of the campus which hallmark their time there. Through grassroots word-of-mouth, pod casts, and posters fanning news about the project, the girls’ submissions swelled on a PLAYGROUND blog online http://www.ourprojectplayground.blogspot.com/. This landslide of real-life photos, objects and stories from the girls set the foundation from which PLAYGROUND has been constructed into a surreal collage landscape of the Anderson campus."	>