Jeremy Sharma | Flame of the Forest

Courtesy of the artist and Haridas Contemporary

Jeremy Sharma is an artist who works with painting, writing and moving images. While he is best known for his conceptual approaches to painting, Sharma has also delved into sound and installation works that examine our relationship with interconnectivity in the information age. He has presented 20 solo exhibitions in Singapore, Sydney, Berlin and Switzerland. In addition to his artistic practice, Jeremy teaches at LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore and runs bulanujung, an experimental curatorial platform.

Flame of the Forest is part of a series that marks Sharma’s return to painting after a decade of working in other media. Its title refers to the tree of the same name that is commonly planted in local parks and open spaces. Beginning with a reference image culled from a photo catalogue about Singapore in the 1980s, Sharma cropped the composition and rendered it in oil paint. For the artist, the source material is secondary to what the painting becomes.