Inevitably, my works are the fruition of my own personal experience in this part of the world, the cultural melting pot and its heritage.
P Gnana
ABOUT: P Gnana
P. Gnana paints, sculpts and creates conceptual installations, as one of Singapores leading international artists. Indeed, he has obtained a highly-captivated audience in the Lion City and internationally for the aesthetic and conceptual niche that he has created for himself within the ever-competitive dynamics and economics of urban art-making. It is a fact that exemplary paintings by Gnana are in the collections of the former President of the Republic of Singapore; of the Singapore Art Museum of the National Heritage Board; and of many individuals and establishments on a global level. Gnana is a recipient of the LASALLE Scholarship of the LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), from where he received his formal training in the art of painting.
He was granted the honour of being selected (in 2005) to undertake a project commissioned by Singapore’s Ascendas to create 14 large-scaled-paintings within an abstract expressionistic motivation for the International Tech Park in Chennai (India). In 2013, one of Gnana’s monumental larger-than-life sculptures under the
‘Incarnation’ series (made from recycled/found materials) was acquired by the National Parks Board (Singapore) to display at the Fort Canning Park, Singapore. In 2019, Gnana was honoured by Singapore’s pioneering Bhaskar’s Arts Academy with the prestigious title, ‘Chitra Kala Nipuna’