Born in 1946, Chng Seok Tin graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1972. In 1980, she took up post-graduate studies in printmaking which was followed by a year's practice under S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris. Since the 1980s, Chng has been instrumental in promoting interest in printmaking and has held more than 20 solo exhibitions. In May 2005, Chng was the first Singaporean to hold a solo exhibition at the United Nations Headquarter and was awarded the Cultural Medallion in the same year.‘Man and His Environment’ is a mixed media piece. The theme of man, society and the environment has been a recurrent one with Chng. This particular work, however, is an exploratory piece for Chng and is the culmination of her experiments of manipulating different materials such as paint, fabric, paper pulp and plaster to produce textures, reliefs and painterly qualities.
