Mama's Precious One

Artist:

Chong Fah Cheong

Patron:

Singapore Housing Development Board (HDB)

Date Created:

27 August 1989

First Placed in Singapore:

1989

Current Location:

Toa Payoh Town Centre

Label

Text of label:

Chong Fah Cheong
"Mama's Precious One", 1989
Marble

entry:

According to media reports at the time, cost S$ 40,000. Marble. Executed mostly in Italy over a period of two months. Was part of HDB's first public art puchase and commission, this, and works by Ju Ming, and Ng Eng Teng. See "Sculptor Leaves for Canada", The New Paper, August 28, 1989.

Location Notes:

The work was first placed near the HDB headquarters in Bukit Merah, August 27, 1989. Moved along with the HDB to Toa Payoh Town Centre sometime in 2004.

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