Singapore, 15 October 2008 – Singaporean artist Mr Yeo Chee Kiong has been awarded the Grand Prize for the inaugural Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation Signature Art Prize organised by the APB Foundation and Singapore Art Museum (SAM). As the recipient of the Grand Prize, Yeo will receive SGD 45,000. Four other artists were also presented awards. The three Juror’s Choice Awards, each worth SGD 10,000, went to Malaysian artist Mr Ahmad Fuad B. Osman for Recollections of Long Lost Memories, Chinese artist Mr Zheng Bo for Karibu Islands and Indian artist Mr G.R. Iranna for Wounded Tools. The SGD 10,000 People’s Choice Award went to Mongolian artist Mr Davaa Dorjderem for his Voice in the Space, which receivedthe most number of public online and onsite votes. |
The Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize is a premier juried prize established by the Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) Foundation and the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). Aimed at recognising the single most outstanding contemporary artwork produced in the preceding three years in , the competition is open to all forms of visual art. It seeks to highlight new developments in the visual arts, stimulate lively public discussion and critical debate, and provide a cross-cultural exhibition platform for established practitioners and emergent artists alike. In its inaugural year of 2008, the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize will focus on the 12 countries of Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam |
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