Home In Focus: Art in the city

Singapore has no shortage of world-class museums and art galleries, but some artists have chosen void decks and building walls across the island as the perfect canvas to showcase their eye-catching masterpieces. As these images captured by Straits Times executive photojournalist Desmond Wee show, a simple white wall can come alive with a few masterful strokes of the brush.

There is plenty of “camera action” as Mr Mohammed Karim takes a wefie with his wife Sumil Karmami in front of a mural of a man with a camera. Aptly enough, the mural is on the wall of the Vintage Camera’s Museum in Jalan Kledek. It was created by local artist Ceno2, whose real name is Mohammad Azlan Ramlan, in collaboration with two other artists, Bunga and Kare. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE This busy backdrop on the wall of Thian Hock Keng Temple in Telok Ayer Street was created by local artist Yip Yew Chong. The 44m-long piece depicts how Hokkien immigrants from southern China lived and interacted in the early days with immigrants from other communities. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE