between realms is a captivating duo solo exhibition featuring Chinese artist Jiang Miao and Singapore-based artist Deborah McKellar. The exhibition invites audiences to step into layered worlds where the tangible and the transcendental meet.
between realms explores how spirituality and the physical presence can be inspired, intertwined, and expressed through visual art. The exhibition will explore how the intangible — our subconscious, emotions, beliefs, and natural energies—be transformed into visible form, and suggest the possibilities of the material world becoming a medium for spiritual reflection and enlightenment.
For Jiang Miao, this duality between the spiritual and the physical unfolds through her distinctive practice of layering and carving. Each layer she applies is a sensory record of her environment—the sun, wind, air, and temperature—in the moment of her creation. The choices of colour and form are intuitive, rooted in the artist’s subconscious. She then introduces carving, a technique that diverges from the traditional act of painting with brushstrokes. Instead of adding, she removes, creating depth with a carving knife on her panel. This absence of paint becomes a striking visual translation of energy, revealing the unseen yet ever-present vitality of her surroundings.
In dialogue with Jiang’s spiritual and energy explorations, Deborah McKellar grounds the exhibition in the physical world through a practice deeply inspired by place, architecture, and memory. Her textile-based works feature landscapes from the evolving urban landscape of Singapore to the poetic dreamscape, a search of her belonging as a South African root in Southeast Asian country to a personal and spiritual exploration of her identity as an artist to be essential to the spirit. Through a meticulous process of silkscreen printing, stitching threads, and painting forms, McKellar transforms physical heritage landmarks into poetic refl ections of identity and belonging. The tactility of the material she used, fabric and thread, becomes a metaphor for lived experience that is imbued with history, nostalgia, and a sense of the passing time.
Venue: Whitestone Gallery Singapore, 39 Keppel Road, #05-03/06, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
When: 8 Nov - 28 Dec 2025,
By: Whitestone Gallery - New Art Museum
