Essays on Art & Literature


  • '‘On Giving’, in On Giving (Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2022)

  • ‘Drawing on Life: Chng Seok Tin, Drawings from 1970-1988,’ in Chng Seok Tin: An Unbroken Line 《连绵不绝的线》(Singapore: Jendela, 2019)

  • ‘Where Durians, Limbs, Mouths Meet Eye, Mind, Paint,’ in Alvin Ong: Supper Club (Singapore: Yavuz Gallery, 2019)

  • ‘Ramblings of Eye and Imagination,’ in Alwyn Chong’s Picturing and Imagining the Okavango Delta (Singapore: Alwyn Chong, 2017) – Silver award at the Singapore Creative Circle Gong Awards 2018

  • Review of Lauren Groff’s Florida, in The Straits Times (16 October 2018)

  • ‘The Whole,’ in Ang Song Nian’s artist book Hanging Heavy On My Eyes (Singapore: NTU, 2017)

  • ‘Doorway to A Past’, review of Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing, in The Straits Times (4 September 2016)

  • ‘Voices of the Self,’ The Straits Times (11 June 2016)

  • ‘[Robert] Zhao Renhui’s Frame of Fiction,’ in Reflect/Refract: Essays on Photography in Singapore (Singapore: Objectifs, 2013)

  • ‘Drying Fish in Singapore Art,’ in BiblioAsia vol. 7, issue 1 (April 2011)

  • Monna Innominata and Christina Rossetti’s Audible Unhappiness,’ in The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005), 174-193

  • ‘Of Trees and the Heartland: Singapore's Narratives,’ in Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Yeo Wei Wei, eds., Beyond Description (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), 17-29

  • ‘City as Theatre: Singapore, State of Distraction,’ in Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Yeo Wei Wei, eds., Postcolonial Urbanism: South-east Asian Cities and Global Processes (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), 245-264

  • ‘Dante's Embodiment of Literary Tradition in the Commedia,’ Dante Studies (2003), 67- 94