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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. Formally known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1950 in the aftermath of the Second World War to help the millions of people who had lost their homes. They lead international action to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people.
Art Works is delighted to host a charity art auction on the evening of World Refugee Day on the 20th of June 2025, to raise much needed funds and awareness for UNHCR. Featuring some of Singaporeʼs most respected and exciting contemporary artists such as Andy Yang and Zhang Fuming as well as international artists Rizrizrizz, Danielle Solk and Sylvie Kettle, the auction will be conducted by Cassi Young, the Global Fine Art Director of Art Works, formerly of Bonhams and Christieʼs.
Date
Friday 20th June 2025
Time
6:30 - 9.30pm
Location
Art Works Gallery
One Holland Village
7 Holland Village Way
#01-10/11, S275748
Hosted by Cassi Young
Global Fine Art Director, Art Works Auctioneer
Young channels her decade of experience from her former role as director Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art in London into strategically deepening engagement with collectors throughout the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. With her finger firmly on the pulse of the global art market, Cassi provides sophisticated advice to clients looking to build extraordinary international art collections.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Sylvie Kettle
Sylvie Kettle (b. 1999) is an emerging artist from Northern Rivers, Australia, whose artistic practice draws from the natural rhythms of nature and the divine feminine. Through gestural mark-making and earthy hues Kettle weaves narratives of healing and intuition into sprawling dreamscapes. A sense of calm that settles across the canvases as Kettle explores the potential for art to heal both artist and audience alike.
RizzRizRiz
RizRizRizz is a celebrated painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Bali, Indonesia. His works have been exhibited across the world in Europe, Asia, and the US. Drawing inspiration from his own lived experiences, Rizz’s figurative works provide an intimate view into a trove of memories, reflecting on both the tragedy and comedy of life. Across his body of work, Rizz often presents the female form alongside animals and floral imagery, constructing layered compositions with his signature wild, textured brush strokes. A sense of the satirical is imbued into Rizz’s practice, capturing the artists own response to the vicissitudes of life.
Andy Yang
Andy Yang Soo Kit (b. 1973, Malaysia) is a celebrated Singapore-based artist, whose multi-disciplinary practice explores the boundaries of abstraction. Drawing from a well of emotions and driven by intuition, Yang’s practice is both poignantly expressive and harmonious. Yang’s works focus on expanding the visuality of painting, expertly employing oil, acrylic, and ink across his canvases. Alongside painting, Yang has also utilised drawing, installation, performance, and music within his practice. Andy Yang has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Singapore, including multiple performances at major institutions such as the ArtScience Museum (Ceremony, 2019), the Asian Civilisation Museum (Mindfulness, 2017), and the National Museum of Singapore (OIC Moon Grazing, 2013). Yang has also been showcased at the Private Museum and collaborated with the Singapore Economic Development Board at London Tech Week (2022).
Zhang Fuming
Zhang Fuming (b. 1989) is a Singapore based artist whose artistic practice centres on printmaking, with a particular focus on the tradition of black-and-white relief carving. Known for his large-scale works, Fuming is dedicated to the physical, hands-on process of woodcut, using the medium’s precision and raw immediacy to craft layered social commentaries through a contemporary realist lens. A participant in the AAF Young Talent Programme 2014/2015, Fuming held his first solo exhibition, The Quest; The Exquisite Rice Bow at Ion Art Gallery in 2015. Subsequent solo shows include Poised for Success (AC43 Gallery, 2016), V. Atas (Telok Ayer Arts Club, 2019), and Props and Poses (AC43 Gallery, 2022).
In 2024, Fuming received the Young Artist Award (the highest accolade for art practitioners below the age of 35 in Singapore) by the National Arts Council, Singapore, for his contributions to the visual art scene in Singapore and to the practice of printmaking.
Danielle Solk
Danielle Solk is an artist and art teacher from the north of England, living and working in Singapore. She studied at Winchester School of Art, specialising in sculpture and later immersing herself in painting, photography and mixed media work. She is one of the managers of #womeninstreetsg, an all-female street photography collective in Singapore. She does not like to limit herself to one particular style or medium, preferring to allow the theme or materials to dictate the direction of the work. She has exhibited in the UK, Mexico, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore.
FEATURED AUCTION ARTWORKS
Pyramid Beings
Sylvie Kettle
Pyramid Beings (2024) invites the viewer to engage in the journey of the figures as they embark across the scene. The layered hues of blue ring clear against the soft, earthy tones, reminiscent of a balmy summer day. Kettle has employed soft strokes of sunlight that illuminate the scene, ebbing and flowing to create a delicate depiction of light and shadow. Playfulness and unaffected joy radiate from the painting, bringing an innate sense of peace to the forefront.
Sylvie Kettle
Pyramid Beings
121.5 x 104.5 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Painted in 2023
You Are My Happiness
RizzRizRiz
You Are My Happiness is a quintessential Rizz print that captures the layered nature of his practice. Depicting a woman feeding a tiger, a vitality erupts from the scene as the tiger leaps toward the dangling fruit. The woman’s hair mirrors the striking coat of the tiger, cascading like a fiery waterfall across the canvas and creating a playful energy. The title of the work has been written across the top of the work in Arabic, highlighting the way in which Rizz often brings in a multilinguistic approach to his practice. While the print emanates an exuberant playfulness, the woman depicted possesses a strength and confidence as she commands the tiger.
RizzRizRiz
You Are My Happiness
135 x 105 cm
Benevolence
Andy Yang
Benevolence (2020) reflects on a friend who forged her own gold standard of resilience, wielding it like armour against life’s fiercest adversities. Yang remembers how their conversations often drifted to those rare souls who offer the quiet grace of presence—no solutions, just solidarity. The kind who listen not to fix, but to witness; not to speak, but to hold space. To all navigating similar storms: Tend to your resilience. Nurture your courage. The fight for light is always worth continuing. Benevolence (completed late 2020), emerged from countless heart-expanding dialogues about life, mortality, and the quiet power of companionship during her journey. It stands as a testament to the strength we find in connection—and the extraordinary magic of being truly heard.
In loving memory of Eugenia Gajardo (1952 - 2021).
Andy Yang
Benevolence
156 x 108 x 5 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Painted in 2020
Zhang Fuming
Jade Plant
90 × 60 cm
Mixed media on woodcut
Executed in 2022
Zhang Fuming
Rubber Plant
90 × 60 cm
Mixed media on woodcut
Executed in 2022
Zhang Fuming
Studio
208 × 120 cm
Mixed media on woodcut
Executed in 2022
Jade Plant (left), Rubber Plant (centre) and Studio (right)
Jade Plant (above), Rubber Plant (centre) and Studio (below)
Zhang Fuming
Jade Plant (2022) and Rubber Plant (2022) were both featured in Props and Poses at AC43 Gallery (2022), an observational critique of materialist pursuit and social rank. The exhibition. Drawing inspiration from photographic compositions that permeate social media trends, Fuming plays with the awkwardness of the arrangements in order to reflect on themes of artificiality and functionality.
Nebula
Danielle Solk
“I really enjoy working in a purely abstract way, allowing the formal qualities of art such as colour, balance, space and contrast, to interact and suggest recognisable forms, memories or sensations that will be different for each person looking at it. I work intuitively, never knowing how the work will end up and do not want to, as immersing myself in the making process and seeing where it takes me is the point for me and what I love about it. The painting will go through many changes before it is finalised. My aim is to create a meditative journey, personal to the viewers’ own experiences, so they can bring their own meaning to the work. Using careful colour combinations that shift and visually move, encourages the audience to engage in their own associative response. I keep the titles purposefully vague, to suggest rather than direct the meaning too much. I also like to work in a figurative way."
Danielle Solk
Nebula
110 × 125 cm
Acrylic, oil and spray paint on canvas
Painted in 2025
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