2 Paintings each 75 x 28cm on Watercolour Paper
Tia Boon Sim - Singapore
TIA BOON SIM is an architect turned art and design educator.
Before her official retirement in 2022, she was the first Artist-in-Residence at Temasek Polytechnic.
She also initiates and teaches Urban Sketching at Singapore University of Technology and Design in addition to giving master classes and workshops in other higher institutions locally and globally.
TIA is the Founding Director of Urban Sketchers, Founder for Urban Sketchers Singapore and Thow Kwang Clay Artists.
Her paintings were made into stamps and first day covers to commemorate the Singapore National Day in 2011.
A speaker at TEDxSingapore in 2013, TIA is also an independent publisher for two books “Urban Sketchers Singapore: Volume 1&2” in 2011 and 2015 respectively.
Her artwork was presented to the Prime Minister of Singapore in 2012 and her skyline sketches of Tokyo and Singapore were presented to Ambassador of Embassy of Japan, Singapore in 2016. In Feb 2018, her painting was presented to the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at inter-government level.
In May 2018, she created a 3-metre-long skyline painting for Jurong Town Corporation to celebrate JTC50. She has also taken part in many publications, talks and exhibitions which she curated notably in the “We Draw” series at the Art Gallery at Glocal Connect Village, Temasek Polytechnic.
