Eng Tow is a Singaporean contemporary artist best known for her use of cloth as medium in her art, creating textile paintings or methodically constructed "cloth reliefs".
11 Facts About Eng Tow
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Eng Tow then studied at the Winchester School of Art in Hampshire, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours.
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Eng Tow obtained her Master of Arts in 1974 from the Royal College of Art in London.
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Eng Tow's father was a businessman based in Singapore, while her brother Eng Tow Theow Huang is an artist, similarly receiving his art education in London.
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In 1977, with a grant from the Crafts Council, Eng Tow established a workshop with fellow artists and craftsmen to teach, exhibit, and design in various parts of the United Kingdom.
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In 1978, Eng Tow won an award for textile design in Britain, continuing to make a living mostly through private commissions and teaching.
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Eng Tow relocated to Singapore in 1981, working with interior designers and designing book covers, endpapers, furniture, accessories, and tapestries, creating theatre sets and props.
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Eng Tow was a visiting lecturer at the National University of Singapore's School of Architecture in 1988.
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Eng Tow would hold papermaking workshops at the same department in 1990, conducting plant-drawing workshops for children at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
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From 1996 to 1999, Eng Tow was based in Perth, Australia as an adjunct staff member at the Curtin University of Technology's School of Art.
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In 2021, Eng Tow's practice was featured as part of the exhibition Something New Must Turn Up: Six Singaporean Artists After 1965, with her section titled the sixth sense.