Malaysian weaver and textile artist Cheong See Min is in residence at Rimbun Dahan from March to June 2022.
About the Artist
Cheong See Min is an artist, weaver and textile artist from Johor Bahru, Malaysia. She obtained a Master of Fine Art degree from the Graduate Institute of Applied Art in Tainan National University of Art, Taiwan, in 2020, and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Tunghai University, Taiwan, in 2017. In 2017, she received Nando’s Art Initiative Second Runner Up award and was also selected for Bakat Muda Sezaman Young Contemporaries 2019. In 2021, her work was also selected for the International Biennale Exhibition of Micro Textile Art “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine.
“I am an obsessive street observer and “collect” the way people unconsciously place their belongings in their neighbourhood. The rhetoric of object placement from the alleyways has inspired me and become the theme and motif in my artworks. Collecting materials from the street and recreating them within the concept of “textile”, my artworks are a collection of my memories and past experiences about the daily objects and people in places I have lived. In my works, I portray stories through textiles and the found objects, building self-understanding through the process.”
Website: https://seemincheong.wixsite.com/homepage
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cymin_cheong/
About the Residency
In this three-month project, I plan to collect dried leaves, tree bark and fruit found in the garden of Rimbun Dahan, to dye with yarns and to produce a series of small artworks with the weaving techniques I have learnt in this time. Being resident in Rimbun Dahan full time, I believe it will draw me into different perspectives and comparisons between Malaysia and Taiwan, and will nurture my work in the tropical garden.
