{"id":90963,"date":"2026-10-07T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90963"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:38:11","slug":"singapore-born-british-artist-kim-lims-legacy-explored-in-hong-kong-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90963","title":{"rendered":"Singapore-born British artist Kim Lim\u2019s legacy explored in Hong Kong exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/07\/52628053-ad04-4a18-ab13-6ebd2cf44868_d20fb856.jpg?itok=CeNamNJf&amp;v=1791348822\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The late Singapore-born British artist <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Kim Lim<\/span> has recently garnered a much-deserved resurgence of international attention. Following major showcases at Tate Britain in 2020 and the National Gallery Singapore in 2024, the diverse oeuvre of the artist is now on view at Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Titled \u201cSource\u201d, the exhibition takes its name from her 1988 granite sculpture <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Source II<\/em>. Lim specialised in printmaking and sculpture, frequently carving directly from wood or stone to create abstract forms that embodied a powerful minimalism.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Despite being the only female and non-white artist featured in the 1977 Hayward Annual exhibition, she was largely overlooked by the mainstream art world following her death from cancer in 1997, aged 61.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Today, her estate is managed by her sons, Alex and Johnny Turnbull. To mark the opening of the Hong Kong exhibition, the brothers joined curator Bianca Chu to reflect on their mother\u2019s creative legacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3369974\/singapore-born-british-artist-kim-lims-legacy-explored-hong-kong-exhibition?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Singapore-born British artist Kim Lim has recently garnered a much-deserved resurgence of international attention. Following major showcases at Tate Britain in 2020 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1785,3731,5730,22115,3569,4388,5231,4490,1246,28096],"class_list":["post-90963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-artist","tag-british","tag-exhibition","tag-explored","tag-hong","tag-kim","tag-kong","tag-legacy","tag-lims","tag-singaporeborn","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}