Largest Marble Powder Rangoli Largest Graffi ti Art (Group)
Kamal Dollah, an artist and art educator, together with Dino Hafi an, Glenn Koh and Wilmer Phuah, painted graffi ti murals on the walls of Telok Ayer Performing Arts Centre. With support from the National Arts Council, Kamal turned the three walls of the former Telok Ayer Primary School into a work of art using spray cans. They completed painting the last wall on 17 May 2007.
Tallest Sculpture
Israeli sculptor David Gerstein built Singapore’s tallest sculpture called Momentum Made of steel, it measures 18.35m tall. It was commissioned by One Raffl es Quay and Marina Bay Financial Centre. Momentum represents the dynamism of Singapore and its people.
Largest Graffi ti Art (Individual) Graffi ti artist Mohd Azlan Ramlan took two months to spraypaint the walls of the Sungei Ulu Pandan for the annual Singapore Street Festival in Oct 2006. 360 cans of spray paint were used to fi nish four graffi ti pieces, each measuring 6m by 2.4m, depicting watersports.
To celebrate the acceptance of Jainism by the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO), the Singa- pore Jain Religious Society put up Singapore’s largest rangoli using marble powder. Five ladies from Kenya made the intricate rangoli measuring 14 ft by 18 ft at the Kallang Theatre foyer from 3-4 Mar 2006.
First
Montblanc Young Artist World Patronage Award
45-year-old Justin Lee became the fi rst Singaporean to have his work selected for the Montblanc Young Artist World Patronage Project. Since 2004, Montblanc has off ered exposure for artists in its worldwide boutiques. Finalists received 2,007 euros (S$4,210) each in cash. Replicas of Lee’s work were on display at Montblanc boutiques for a few weeks from Aug 2008.
Paintings Under The Most Trying Conditions
Bombardier Stanley Warren painted the famous Changi murals during his captivity as a British prisoner-of-war at the Changi Prison from 1942 to 1943. Warren was suff ering from a severe renal disorder and amoebic dysentery, and could only paint for about 15 min followed by a long rest. After the war, he returned to England but came back to the scene of his captivity three times - in 1963, 1982 and 1988 to restore his paintings.
Largest Visual Arts Display On Water
The largest visual arts display on water was recorded on New Year’s eve in 2009. About 20,000 ‘wishing spheres’ carrying the written wishes of Singaporeans were set adrift on Marina Bay. The event was jointly organised by The Esplanade – Theatres by the Bay and the URA.
First To Win International Cartoon Prize
Heng Kim Song, editorial cartoonist for Lianhe Zaobao, was the fi rst Asian and Singaporean to win the Political Satire Prize for International Cartooning, at the International Political Satire Festival in Italy in 2000.
Most Prolifi c Manga Artist
Cartoonist With Most Published Works In USA
Sonny Liew was nominated for the Eisner Award, a prize given for creative achievement in American comic books. His comic illustra- tions include titles for DC Vertigo, DC Minx, SLG and Disney, along with the Xeric-awarded Malinky Robot. His fi rst foray into comic il- lustration was with The New Paper. He had his fi rst break into the American comics industry when he was assigned to illustrate Iron Man for Marvel’s Marvel Universe Millennial Visions title.
Wee Tian Beng was the fi rst Singapore an artist to break into the international manga markets; in Taiwan with his 1993 comic series Astronautics and in Hong Kong with his Adventures of Wisely in 1994. The Astronautics was serialised in The Century Boys, a Taiwanese comic magazine with 40,000 cop- ies in circulation. His adaptation of Louis Cha’s Return of the Condor Heroes sold 1.5 million copies. In 1999 he began working on the Chinese and English editions of The Celestial Zone. The series was eventually distributed in Asia, Europe, US and Australia. To date, Wee has created more than 100 volumes of manga works.
First Artist To Win Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
Performance artist Tang Da Wu was the fi rst Singaporean to win the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 1999. The culture prizes were set up in 1990 by the Japanese city of Fukuoka to hon- our the work of individuals or organisations in Asian cultures.
Longest Painting
1,001 students from 21 schools painted 394 woodboards over a period of four months. The boards were combined on 23 Aug 2006 at the National Stadium to form a total length of 946m. Entitled Colours of Life, the project was coordi- nated by artist Ben Puah.
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