What can we imagine with the language of colours, shapes, and textures inspired by nature?
In When Art Meets Nature, a children’s art exhibition co-curated by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery Singapore, we invite you into a sensorial journey where you can explore nature through the artists’ lens and reimagine new worlds that foster environmental sustainability.
Experience two of the installations by Soh Ee Shaun and Yenting Hsu from 30 April 2026 to 1 November 2026 here at National Gallery Singapore. Unfold your own journey of artistic creation and meet nature in art.
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When: 30 Apr – 1 Nov 2026 - Suitable For: Families
- Where: City Hall Wing, Level 1, City Hall Alcove and Keppel Centre for Art Education
- Ticket Information: Free admission
About the Exhibition
When Art Meets Nature is a children’s art exhibition co-curated by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and National Gallery Singapore. Exhibited at Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts between July and November 2025, two of the installations have travelled back to National Gallery Singapore, where we invite you to explore nature through the artists’ lens and reimagine new worlds that foster environmental sustainability and preservation.
The presentation in Singapore brings together two artists, Soh Ee Shaun and Hsu Yenting, whose works draw deeply from natural environments. These works are more than representations of nature; they encourage imaginative exploration, active participation and quiet reflection.
As you move through the spaces, notice the colours, textures and stories that echo the environments around us. These artworks invite you to consider your relationship with nature, and how care, curiosity and creativity can shape the future.
Featured Installations
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Peace Forest
2025
Soh Ee Shaun. Peace Forest. 2025. Digital print, readymade, sound, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. Image from Toisland Project.
Welcome to Peace Forest—a magical, colourful forest created just for you! Step into a world filled with tall trees, playful animals, insects and leafy plants. Like a real forest, this joyful forest feels calm and peaceful—the perfect place to explore, relax and have fun.
Peace Forest was inspired by Singaporean artist Soh Ee Shaun’s nature walks near his home, where he spotted birds, insects and even a flying lemur resting on a mango tree! His artwork brings that same wonder to life, encouraging children to enjoy the beauty of nature.
As you wander through Peace Forest, you’ll learn how plants, animals and trees help one another and keep our planet healthy. It is a reminder of how special forests are—and why we should care for them, just like they care for us.
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Where the River Runs
2025
Yenting Hsu. Where the River Runs. 2025. Wood installation, document, video, sound, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts. Image from Toisland Project.
Did you know that Taoyuan is home to the second-largest indigenous population in Taiwan? Many Indigenous communities live along the Dahan River. For a very long time, rivers, oceans and streams have been an important part of their lives. These waters are not only places for people to live on and travel along, but also sources of stories, knowledge and wisdom that teach people how to live in harmony with nature.
In Taiwan, many cultural traditions, beliefs and ceremonies are also connected to the rivers and sea. As an island surrounded by water, Taiwan’s culture has been deeply shaped by its relationship with the natural world.
We invite you to walk alongside this river of stories. Put on the headphones and pick up a small book. Listen and read as you discover stories of rivers and oceans. These stories bring together science, history and imagination to help us understand how we can care for and live gently with the waters around us.
The Artists
Soh Ee Shaun (Singapore)
Soh Ee Shaun is an artist, illustrator and educator from Singapore, whose paintings seek to express energy and mindfulness into a landscape of sheer color and joy. Often unplanned, his abstract, nonconceptual paintings are an experiential and experimental process, as he juxtaposes shapes, lines, and planes into a geometry of harmonious colours and playful forms. In recent years, Soh's interest in mindfulness and meditation has led him towards contemplative, rhythmic, and energetic color field paintings that reflect and record the passage of time, while exploring the tension between movement and stillness.
Soh Ee Shaun has been commissioned by Apple, Facebook, Nike, Adidas, Lacoste, Herman Miller, Disney and Shake Shack, and has been nominated and selected as one of 20 finalists for the 2012 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. He has exhibited at the 11th Venice Architectural Biennale, Berlin Festival of Lights, Singapore Design Festival, iLight Marina Bay Sands. He currently teaches at the School of the Arts, Singapore.
Yenting Hsu (Taiwan)
Using sound as her primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sound. Her work reflects on the relationships between sound, environment, individual and/or collective memories. Interweaving field recordings with electronic elements and objects, she explores the boundaries between documentary and fiction, narrative and imagination. Her practice extends across multiple mediums and disciplines, taking the forms of installations, performances, audio documentaries, and electroacoustic music.
Her work has been presented across Taiwan and internationally, including New Taipei City Art Museum, Digital Art Center Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei Arts Festival – Asian Meeting Festival, Hong-gah Museum, Taitung Art Museum, Taipei International Documentary Festival, Lacking Sound Festival, Taiwan Sound Lab, and ChengLong Wetlands International Environmental Art Project, as well as Forplay Society (Kochi-Muziris Biennale, IN), Toyama Glass Art Museum (JP), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Liquid Architecture (AU), Arte Radio (FR), Liquid Sound Temple (DE), Festival Film Dokumenter (ID) and Ban-Doh, 辦桌＠FORMOSA (UK), among others.
